The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-09-29

The works OF the washington Moving
| Machine Company, at Sandy HILL New
YorKs was burned on Monday night Loss
heavy.
A telegraph from Tours, received at San
| Francisco yesterday, acknowledge the re-
ceipt of $500 su Oscr1ption IN aid Of the
French wounded.
The tug Dodge exploded her boiler
alongside the Columbia Elevator al
Oswego, Saturday morning, damaging the
latter, but no lives were lost.
aRThe committee to meet the Green Line
excursIonists at LOuisvtll e, left Cincinnati
yesterday morning. The excursion is Is
reached Nashville, yesterday evening. 81
There was a large increase yesterday, in
the numbe of persons in attendance at
the Industrial Exposition, at Cincinnati. /.
The attendance OF strangers was marked
feature.
Reports from the cotton crop are re-
some con cornpIaints "a are made that negroes
who have mortgaged their shares or the
crop refuse to pick IL. The work OF picking
weather being highly favorable.
General Richard N. Bowerman, late
Deputy Collector of Customs at Baltimore,
one of Andy Johnson's Democratic ap-
embezzling $4,000, and presenting to the
United States Treasury false claims to the
amount Of S. 500 In gold.
James Wilson, the murderer OF Warden
Willard, of the Connecticut State Prison,
was indicted by the Grand Jury at Hart
ford, on Tuesday, for murder in the nrst
degree. ana Will be brought from prison
to-day aud arraigned In the superior
President GRAFT and his family were to
leave Hartford yesterday at one O'Clock,
en- route for farminglon, where Miss
mary. The family will stop at Ex- Gov.
Jew ett's on their arrival. before going to
Pennington.
The Wisconsin State Fair opened at Mil
waukee, yesterday, under favorable au-
spices, with fine weather. good time track,
immense display in all departments, and
. large attendance. Conspicuous among
from the old regiments, with the famous
war eagle, "Old Abe"
The First National Bank OF Denver has
on exhibition at the Territorial Fair. at
Denver, bar OF gold 121S inches long, 81
largest bar ever cast, aud Is valued at S55,-
O0O 1t Will be exhibited at the st. Louis
Fair, and will be then sent to the Fourth
National Bank of New York.
The negotiations pending between par
ties preparing to build the railroad be-
tween Cincinnati and Springfield, and the
Pennsylvania Central, have failed, and
the former road will be built Immediately.
1t Is not decided whether the road will be
built directly TO Springfield or via Dayton.
Senator Drake, of Missouri, opened his
canv ass OF the state with speech at Han
ntbal Tuesday night, in which he charged
the bOlttng Republicans with a design TO
break mp the party and give the State to
the Democrats. In regard to disfrancb1se-
ment, he said It was simply q question of
elemency and expediency, and that the
Republican party had not plightea its
faith upon IL.
In the New York Yacht Club race yester-
day, the Douglass Cup was won by Mr..
Benefits Dauntless in six hours, eleven
minutes and twenty seconds. Distance,
twenty mites 20 windward and outside
Sandy Hook and back. The Ashbury Cup
was won by the Tidal Wave, and the Stuy-
Eesant Cap by the Madeline in six hours,
twelve minutes and thirteen seconds, and
six hours, seventeen minutes and twenty
seconds The SaphO did not compete for
the cur, but sailed over the course in six
hours, hve minutes and forty five seconds
the best time made.