The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-01-29
Washington Items.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.-The Com
mittee of Ways and Means were en-
gagged on the Free List Tariff Bill
to-day.
A number of prominent citizens Of
Delaware waited on the President to.
day, to urge the appointment Of Judge
Fisher, now on the Supreme Court
bench Of this District, to the vacancy
on the bench of the Supreme Court
Of the United States,
The examination of Corbin was
continued by the Committee on Bank
ing and Currency to-day. The next
witness will be Mr.. Smith, of Smith,
Gould & Martin. Subp@nas have
been sent for other parties in New
York.
La the Supreme Court to day, the
following cases were up:
No. 10, original-State Of Texas VS..
Agent of George Peabody. Judge
Paschal moved a return day of sub
pnnas in this case by connected, and
fixed for the first Monday in Decem-
Der next, 1t was so ordered.
No. 337-J. d, Cox, Secretary of
the Interior, VS.. VIM. McGarrahan.
Counsel for McGarrahan moved for
writ of certiorGri to bring up por-
tions of records which, as now made
up, do not appear. Upon the sugges-
ton of the Attorney General, how
ever, the parties stipulated that the
missing portion may be brought up
by consent.
The President sent the following
nominations to the Senate this after
noon: L. III Corey, Collector Of In
/ ternaf Revenue for the Second Dis
| trict of California. Leander Holmes,
Attorney, Washington Territory. g.
w. Forrest, Postmaster, LeWisburg,
| Penn. w. W. Curtis, Postmaster,
Athens, Ohio.
WASHINGTON. January %. - The
Committee on Banking and Currency
have authorized in their statement
that no portion of testimony taken
before them in regard to the gold
panic of September last, or the sub
stance thereof, has been given to the
press, and all statements purportlng
/ to be such are unauthorized. and to q
large extent inaccurate. The COM
mittee have nearly concluded the eX
animation Of witnesses.
The Senate to-day confirmed the
| lOl1OmAuS uOAuA13AAOASs A0NANA -
| Carey. Collector of Internal Revenue
| I'd District of California; Franz Sigel,
Assessor of Internal Revenue, 9th
District of New York; Horace Cole
man. Assessor of Internal Revenue,
4th District of Ohio; Henry Near
thur, Assessor of Internal Revenue,
Sd District of Missouri; VIM. b. Ma
son, Postmaster, Marietta, Ohio; Jas.
/ &C D.xklro
Monies, Ionia, Mich; John N. Gott,
Receiver of Public Monies. Boon
Vile, Mo-; Jeremiah Hyde, Receiver
of Public Monies, and Edward w.
Willet, Receiver at Land Office, Visa
liza; Michael Vidot, Commissioner on
the part of United States under the
Convention with Peru, Dec. 4, 1868;
Chester Il. Chester, Attorney for the
Eastern District of Missouri; w. NJ
Cumback, Minister Resident to Por
tugal; E. 5. Radal, Second Secretary
of Legation at London.
The asst series of diRneTs in honor
of Prince Arthur, was given this
evening at the British Legation, at
which were present, Senators Schurz,
Williams, and Anthony, Gen. Banks,
and the Belgian, Argentine, PeTuvi-
an, Danish, Spanish, Brazilian and
Netherland Ministers. The Prince
will probably leave for New York to
morrow.
Railroad AccIdent-One Man Killed
SUSPENSION BRIDGE, January 28.-
An accident on the Great Western
Railroad occurred to night, to the
express train from Detroit. The
train consisted of two passenger and
two Pullman sleeping cars. The rail
which caused the disaster, though
new, broke in too in several places
One passenger car turned over com
pletely and was mashed beyond re-
pair. Another was badly shattered
When the train halted all the cars
were so jammed into each other the
passengers could not get through the
I doors The conductor discovered
that the overturned car was on fire