, 1861-06-06
Domestic Items.

DomesGlc Items.
Japanese tobacco is being imported into this
country.
There have been about 1l6 days Of sleighing
in. New Hampshire since the beginning Of De-
cember, 1860. .. =.
The last exploit Of Cheever's beiligerent
church was accommodating . member who
had turned Episcopalian.
The Southern Congress have graciously per.
mitted United States coin to be regarded as legal
tender within the Confederacy.
Youthful applicants for Offices which can only
be filed by men Of experience, had better take
the advice to be found in II. Samuel chap. K,
verse 0.
A Georgia paper insists that the necessaries
of life be admitted duty free. We believe that
in Georgia this means breadstuffs, meat whisky,
spurs and shirt collars .. ..-
It is actually contemplated by several promi.
nent spiritualists in the United States to issue
new edition Of the Bible-the proof sheets Of
which shall be, through mediums, revised BY
the original authors.
A physician at Philadelphia, on entering
horse railroad car filed with passengers, sud-
denly exclaimed, Small Pox in this carl
smell IT," when all left the car but deeply yelled
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The Charleston Courier, in behalf of South
ern Journals, tenderly and cordially invites Mr..
Russell the correspondent Of. the London Times,
to visit the Confederate States, and see the work.
ing Of the new order Of things. ...
The population Of New York State BY the Of.
fetal census is 1887 ,646 Of the wardsof New
York city, s05, ,657. There is Q population in
the prisons and almshouses Of 5000 more, max
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The Barnwell Is. C) Sentinel publishes the
following: married, on Saturday last, by W.
H. Hunter, Esq, Mr.. McCVaw, in the s1st year
Of his age, to Miss Patty Harveston, aged II, all
Of the poOrhOuse."
On Monday, an assignee in New York put up
at auction the entire stock Of dry goods house,
which had stopped. 1t was sold in one lump for
$46O 900, and paid for on the spot Stewart
was among the competitors.
The Charleston Is. o. Courier says: ait
will be seen by reference to the schedule Of taxes,
that we are 70 pay one dollar and twenty-six
cents on each slave, and not sixteen dollars, as has
been slanderously reported by lying tongues"
Two Of the night wAtchmen at Cleveland were
frightened and ran like bares . few nights ago,
at the sight Of what they supposed to be ghost,
but which was only an anxious mother, In her
sick child. t.r4.
The fur trade at St. Pal was unusually good
last year, reaching the sum Of $4,000. In
1855, the trade was estimated at 100000. OF
the purchases last year; $4,000 were paid for
mink, $4,000 for fisher, SIS, 600 for otter, and
$2l, ,OOO for buffalo skins. ='
The New York Tribune asks why no attempt
Is made in the South to arm the blacks and or
l NhaF inf mill anfa ha ntaan
ton is 4 very silly one. Why should black com
panies and regiments be exposed in war when
niggers are worth 81 500 pieces
Il has been suggested that in view Of the fre-
quent thefts from mails in al sect ons. Of the
country, the Government should either refuse to
carry money letters, and repeal all laws probib-
itng private letter carrying, or else adopt the
English money order system, and make itself
responsible for the moneys il receives.
DR.. G. I. jackson, Of Boston, Mass, has re-
Gently contributed an article to the AediedI and
SureicaI Journal on number Of cases Of pois-
oning lately brought under his notice from green
colored papef DR.. S. \. AinswoTth, Of Boston,
also reports a case Of child poisoning from suck
ing the surface Of green concert ticket -s
A little plant Is found upon the prairies Of
Texas called the "compass flower" which un-
der all circumstances Of climate, changes Of
weather--Tain, frost, or Enthusiastically
turns its head toward tho North, thus afording
an merTing guide 10 the traveller, who, unaided
by the needle, seeks to explore these vast plains
alone. s s
A Charleston correspondent says: ~ met
Duncan N. Ingfaham this afternoon ct the ar
senaL The hero Of the Kozsla affair looks wan,
pale and III at ease. Il was tremendous saeri-
flee Of everything that . man prizes to turn
y, L.. II. Sk.N k.a krn o~adh IN ~
many ways, aud that he himself has elevated 30
proudly In the blue Mediterranean.
New York, in 1856, contained 5S5 O97 lnhAb-
itants in nineteen Of its Wards, divided into
lll2,S3S families For theaecomodatiOnO Of these
there were 36,Oss dwellings, averaging about
three families to q dwelling. h was also found
that while 24,466 Of these dwellings shelter but
36,2l3 families, the remaining 1884 houses
have to c0ver7 G620 families an average Of nearly
six families 70 each house.
The Canterbury Society Of Shakers have
lately answered an order from Java for large
lot Of their preserved aPple--fiye hundred cans.
They are Q thriving people, Whcn Southern
orders for washing machines lall of, instead Of
folding their hands and waiting for better times
they hunt up other sources for employment ard
profit, IL they have to look 70 Asia for them.
TaHi,y Fair relates an extraordinary instance
Of New York detective vigilance. The police
discovered box on the wharf, ffom Che dimIned
superscription Of which they made out the
words cartridges and PickenS" Fired with
zeal, they Sc zed the incendiary package, and
reported shipment Of arms prevented, 1he
, owner appeared, however, and explained 70 their
{ luminous understanding that " cartridges and
Pickens" should read 'Patridges and chickens"
There Is something new under the sun, aud
) that is new hOtel dodge 10 punish nOn-Paying
bOarderS The La Fargo House. New York,
has had the honor Of inaugurating this new pen:
aItv Il Is done In this way. A card written