The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-01-11
LATEST NEWS TTEpIs.

Gold closed In New YORK, SATURDAY ~
1855.
Governor CIan1in, of Massachusetts, was
inaugurated Saturday.
The New York Tribune supports Mar
shall o. Roberts for United States Senator.
Our dispatches contain accounts of a ter
rible earthquake in Mexico.
Lowry, Blood & Hammond, a heavy Bos
ton dry goods hrm. are reported to have
failed.
Charles Westmoreland, bearer of the
California electoral vote, died of small
pox at Panama. December 23d.
A forty thousand dollar fire occurred in
Cairo on Friday evening. A clothing hou Q
aud three saloons were the victims.
sweeney's grain elevator and warehouse
in bloomington, Illinois, was destroyed
by IRE on Friday night.
smith, the Port Jervis murderer, has
turned up at Hamilton Canada. He has
been sent for.
Thomas Harper, who sued the st. Louis
and Indianapolis Railroad for twenty
Thousand dollars damages, failed to gain
the suit.
The ST. Louis merchants held meeting
on Saturday night to devise means to pro-
tect them selves from losses under the
credit system
MoDevitt has declined Dion's challenge
TO play three push shot American games
OF billiards OF 500 or 1000 points for 1000
or Sc 700 a side each game.
VIM. Henry Caswen was hung at Rome,
New York, yesterday, for the murder Of
little Abby Saunders, at Camden, in April
last.
Henry r. Pierson, President of the
Brooklyn City Railroad, has accepted the
office of Financial Manager of the Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad, and will move
to Chicago.
L. A. Dovan has been indicted by the
grand jury Of Memphis for numbering Ed
win Whiteiel6. The Jail had to be guarde d
on Friday night, TO prevent the lyncning
of the prisoner.
The County Commissioners at Memphis
have subscribed $500, 900 to aid in building
the Mississippi River Railroad from that
city to Paducah.
Chief Justice Scott of Maryland, has de-
cided the constitutionality or State enact
ments forbidding persons not perman ent
residents of the State from Offering or ex-
posing goods and wares without first OBJ
tanning license.
Sheriff o'Brien, of New York, is dis posed
to prevent Congressional Investigation
into New York city frauds. He arrested
seven witnesses on Saturday, and ordere
the arrest Of others. The Sergeant-at- Arms
applied to the United States Marshal for
assistance when the Sheriff's Deputies
took their departure.
A bill was introduced 10 the Tennessee
Legislature by the Speaker of the House,
10 amend ths Constitution of the State so
as to enfraBchise all the rebels, but 1t was
indefinitely postponed.
Four hundred lodges of Colnanche Indi-i
ans have applied to General Sherman to
surrender at Fort Bascom. He notified
them that no surrender would be accepted
other than at Fort Cobb. 1t Is designed to
have all the Indians of the plains within
marching distance of Gen. Sheridan.
a committee of Virginians propose to
hold permanent sessions at Washington,
TO take into consideration the condition
of the State, and devise measures to re
lieve it. The COMMITTEES designs taking ad-
vantage of every circumstanc ce which they
think may e turned TO their advantage.
An@gro riot has occurredin Princess Ann
Couaty, Virginia, in which two or three
negroes and one white soldier were killed.
The difficulty grew out of an attempt TO
excel some negroes from some farms on
which they had "squatted-" The negroes
were threatening to Kill all the white men.
Battery A, Fifth Artillery, had arrived to
reinforce the troops. Great excitement
prevailed.
The steamer Idaho, with Honolulu ad
vices to December 26th, arrived at San
Francisco on the 8th. The funeral of Ke-
kuanoa, King of the Sandwich Islands,
took place on the I'd with imposing cere-
monies. Tho procession was thirty min
utes passing given point. Minute guns
were fred from the batteries on shore and
the shipping in the harbor.
The Missionary packet Northern Star,
had arrived at San Francisco from a cruise
among the Micronesion Islands, and re-
ports the slave trade openly carried on be-
tween the Islands OF the South American
Coast. Letters are filled with accounts of
outragss on natives by slavers. The mis-
sionaries ask the protection of American,
English and French war vessels.
\ large brig, flying American and Eng
lish colors by turns, called the Water Lilly,
Captain BENZ. Pease, and armed with two
twelve Founders, seven six-pounders, and
two stern-chasers, well provided with
small arms, munition, and a disciplined
crew, was cruising In the vicinity of the
Micronesion Islands under suspicious cir
cumstances.
The Herald says the Treasury authorities
have learned that the recent attack upon
ClarksviIIe, Texas, and the murders of In
speetors Phillips and Hammond were
done in the interest of the Whisky Ring.
Also, that certain telegraph companies
were in league with the Whisky Ring, di-
vulging the contents of Government dis
patches to the Ring, before they reached
the officials to whom they were addres sed.
The War Department. has taken measure
to secure the safety of Custom officers on
duty on the Rio Grande.