Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1861-06-20
CLIPPINGS,

glorious camp meeting that, at Fortress
Monroe.
Who wants better National Hiu" than
General Scott?
Major General George McClelland, next
in rank to General Scott, is only thirty three
years Of age,
Dogs are said to speak with their tails
Would it be proper to call short tailed dog
a stump orator
England will send feet to the American
coast to protect her commerce against JEFF.
Davis pirates.
The Connecticut State Prison is the only
institution of the kind in the country which
is rnn at profit.
Gen. Bragg has prohibited any letter wri-
ting from the G. s. A. army before Pickens
to the newspaper.
Union Clubs are forming all through Cal.
ifornia, and the hope of sympathy with the
Sou:h is clubbcd out forever.
The number of troops which have left New
York for the seat of hostilities is twenty-six
regiments, or about 25, 900 mep.
The President has endorsed the action of
the Missouri Brigade by issuing commiss.
ion of Brigadier~ General to Capt. Lyon.
There is frmin Elgin, Illinois, known as
"Gray and Lunt." Half the letters come to
them are directed to Lay and Grunt."
Ia Richmend, Va. they are issuing shin
plasters for twenty-five and fifty cents, and
others redeemable in payment for taxes.
Horsefesh is regularly quoted in the mar
ket prices current Of several towns in Ger
many, not on the hoof, but cut up for food.
A new proieetile has been invented in
France, weighing 80 pounds, which, falling
in columns of troops is expected to kill 100
men.
Two men were frozen to death on the first
day of May, at l. 'Iset, c. E., while return
ing from sugar bush in the vicinity of that
place.
Jefferson Davis, in his late message, con-
fesses that only eight millions of the fifteen
million dollars Confederate loan were subs
scribed,
Spurgeon commenced his pulpit career at
the age of l9, 10 small barn at Cambrige.
shire. His popularity is increasing.
DR.. Livingston, the African traveller.
writes that he passed many large fields of
cotton on the Zambesi, the article having a
pile an inch and half long.
The Red Rover of Alabama, Mr. Yancv.
has not been publicly received by the British
Minister, yet he seems to have succeeded in
getting its private-ear.
Some slanderer asserts that paper makers
are the greatest magicians of the age, inas-
much as they transfer beggars' rags into
sheets for editors to lie On.
A Mexican recently dug the body of an
Indian from his grave, near Mokelunme Hill
CAL, and took from the mouth of the defunct
three dollars which had been placed there
by his tribe.
Some of the Southern papers are advoca-
ting the erection of monument to jackson
the murderer of Ellsworth-who no has, they
say given new lustre to the historic name.-
Oh, LII -icory,
Gen. Scott rays that when soldiers go to
battle they carry their stomachs with them.
The rebel soldiers realize this. and thus far,
when attacked. have taken the care TO turn
that portion of their body from the assail.
ant.
The Detroit Tribune states that G. H. o.
one of Cardigan's regiment, the
gallant six hundred who rode through that
solid phalanx of Russians at Balaklava, and
,abred the artillery men at their guns, has
enlisted in the Coldwater Light Artillery
Corps of Michigan.