The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-03-24

to the possession of Broadway bro
ker, named VIM. Okell, who was ar
rested and held for examination. He
claims TO have received the bonds in
the regular course of business. and
without the knowledge that they were
stolen
A den of counterfeiters has been
discovered at Snake Hill. NewJ ersey.
Plates for counterfeit $40 bills were
| seized, and a man named A. Fillmore
arrested, on whom was found $l20 In
spurious sos on the National Bank
Of Utica. the National Bank OF New
| I York, and the National Bank OF the
City Of New Jersey. He was held II
$1,000 bail.
The thirteenth annual session Of
| the New York Conference OF the M
/ h. Church convened 10. day, Bishop
/ Ames, presiding. Rev. Henry BEEN
of Staten Island, IN the nInty,, NTH
year of his age, said to be the oldest
| Methodist minister IN the United
States, was present.
Mrs. Wilbour vase hosen President
of the Sorosis, and Mrs. Croly Vice
| President.
Matthew d. Field. brother Of Cyrus,
died In Southwick, Mass, on Tues
day.
Sixty Mormon converts left Long
Island yesterday. for Salt Lake.
Twenty four operatives IN q manu-
| featuring establishment on Llspenard
Street, which took fire to-day, had
q narrow escape from death; Several
having the clothing burned from their
| persons.
A boiler in the steel factory at
Queedue, L. l., exploded on Tuesday.
One of the workmen was fatally IN
jured.
The gsteamer Hcusa, to Havre,
sailed to day for Europe, She was
detained for repairs
A report in some Western papers
that two hundred passengers, who
returned from Omaha, unable to get
through to California by the Pacific
Railroad, sailed from here this week
Ia the steamer Henry Chaun cy, Is
officially pronounced untrue.
Captain Forsyth, of the steamer
Manhattan. arrived to-day. He re-
ports that on March 18th he passed
brig -rigged steamer, bound east,
under full sail. There was nothing
in her appearance to indicate distress.
She was too far off to make any sig
nails. He did not know the Samaria
was still cut and overdue. He says
the report that he refused assistance
to the Samaria is untrue. The
steamer could easily have attracted
special notice by changing her course,
taking in sail, or firing a guu, nane of
which she did.
NEW YoRK, March 23.-By the ar
rival of the steamer Merrimac, from
Rio Janeiro, we have Information
about the dreadful condition of Para
quay. The country is one vast ruin.
Towns are depopulatcd, and the peo-
pie are literally starving. There are
thousands living on roots, and what
ever fruit they can find. Twenty
thousand widowed women are hanging
about Ascencion, nearly starving, to
procure passage to Buenos Ayres or
Monteveido. Gangs of deserters are
prowling through the country, rob
bing and numbering. Lopez is safe
in the mountains, sueeored By the
Indians, but the Brszilians hold pos
session of the whole country, with
that exception.
The City of Mexico has arrived
from Havana.
The steamship Tybee, from San Do
mingo has arrived
Hon. Mahlon Chance. of Ohio, who
has been appointed United States
Consul at Nassau, N. B., will leave
this port for the consulate In the
steamship Missouri tomorrow.
The o-turreted iroRciad Terror
will probably sail to-day for Hamp-
ton Roads. The Frolic, flagship Of
ost-Admiral S. III. Stringbam. will
accompany her as convoy, and hav-
to her station at this port.