The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-04-02
Legal Tender Decision TO
bo Re-opened.
Public Debt Statement.
The Debt Reduced Nearly
$6,OOO,OOO il March.
Washington and New York
News.
Miscellaneous kilograms,
Chicago Items -- News from Red
RiVer-PreparatIOn 10 Honor the
Remains OF Gen. ThOmaS-DiScus-
sIOn Of Woman Suffrage Question,

Chicago Items - News from Red
RIVer-PfeparatiOn 30 Honor the
Remains or Gen. ThOmaS-Dlscus-
sion OF Woman Suffrage Question.
CHICAGO, April IA discussion on
woman suffrage took place at Pc
oria last evening, between Miss Susan
B. Anthony, of New York, and Prof.
II. G. HeWett, of the Illinois Normal
University. The discussion lasted
two hours, and the Professor is Eaid
to have come off second best. 1t will
be renewed tonight.
DIR. Schultz, Canadian, who has
been at the head of the opposition to
Riel, at Winnepeg, and upon whose
head has been set a price, arrived at
st. Paul yesterday, via Dunleith, hav-
ing reached there by an overland
journey on snow shoes, enduring
much hardship.
The Winterees tribe of half-breed
buffalo hunters have, 1t is reported,
Joined Riell. They number several
hundred.
At Minneapolis. Mimi, the rock
upon which the Golfer dam of st. An
th0ny water power rests, which was
built to shut In the whole channel
last fall, is reported to have sunk, and
there are serious apprehensions that
the Spring rise will make all labor
expended to save water power use
less.
Another meeting of a committee
Of twelve to make arrangements for
the rece ption of the remains Of Gen
eral Thomas, was held this afternoon.
General Sheridan said he had re-
eeiyed a dispatch from Col. Willard,
who has charge of the remains of
General Thomas, saying that he
should reach Chicago next Tuesday
afternoon over the Chicago Il Bur
lington Road. They will probably
leave for Troy on the same eTening,
York Central Roads.
General Sheridan has received q
dispatch from General Sherman, di-
recting him to send an officer over the
Pacific road, to meet the remains at
Fort Bridger, and. ascertain all the
particulars in relation to the funeral.
That the body of the deceased would
be taken to Troy, but it was not
known whether they would be buried
there or West Point.
General Sheridan, to- day, receive d
the following letter from General
Sherman:
WASHINGTON, D, g., April l.
To Gen. P. H. Sheridan, Com'd'g., &c.
/ have telegraphed to Colonel Will
lizard, in charge of General Thomas
remains, to consult with Mrs. Thomas
and to determine as to some of the
details of the funeral. The funeral
party should reach Troy, N. Y, by
Tuesday of next week, and if the bur
ial is to be there, then Friday will
be the proper day, as you must be at
Philadelphia on Saturday, and the
President also. If the body is prop
erly prepared, it could be takeh from
Troy to West Point, on Monday,
April 11th, and the funeral take
place on Tuesday 18th. Please have
some one well out on the road, at
Bridger or Fort Sanders, to see Col.
Willard, and get an answer on these
points that may announce the day
and date to the general public.
| w. II. SHERMAN,
General.
A committee of fifty of our leading
citizens, headed by General j. d.
Webster, Mayor Mann and others,
was appointed to act with General
Sheridan and staff.