, 1861-12-24

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Mr.. ssEllet's pamphlet, alleging n,isnaanage-
ment Of the army Of the Potomac, is being
quietly suppressed. Even members Of Con-
grcss find 1t difficult to, procure q copy.
Gilbert c. Davidson has retired from the
firms Of Erastus Corning d Co., and Corning,
Winslow & Co., Albany.
- Tile New York Court Of Appeals has de-
cidcd that to eject passenger from railway
car while in motion, is SO dangerous al act |
that 1t may justify the same resistance on the |
part Of the passenger, as to direct attempt to |
take his life. Any passenger, for good cause, !
may be elected In a proper manner, but his |
resistance to an effort to expe1 him, without !
stopping the car does not present q case Of |
concurrent negligence on his part. Under
this ruling passenger, who was thrust from |
u car while in motion, obtained verdict Of !
q ,0o0 against company.
John L. Wendell, who was years ago re-
porter Of the Court Of ERRORS, Albany, NY,
died at Hartford, Ct, last week. He was the
father OF Mrs. Robert B. Mintu1u Of New
York.
The New Jersey State arsenal, at Tren-
ton, has been fitted up for ritling the old
smooth bore muskets.
According to the accounts given Of him
in the New FORK papers, and especially be-
cause Of his recognition by the United States
Assistant Marshals tAcre-Hhich is said to be
an identity having no hesitation about it
Capt. Chubb, the commander Of the rebel
yacht, captured and burned by the crew Of
one OF the launches Of the figate Santee, Is
the same Chubb {of Charlestown, Mass.,l for
whom there is reward Of $1,000 offered {as is
stated) Tor breaking jail in Boston, or the
Chubb who used to insure vessels and send
them to sen in ballast, or loaded with stone,
and then destroy the vessel, and next, in due
course, claim the insurance.
- The most Important loss in connection
with the fire at Whitesboro, N. T., is th.t Of
the town records. They arc all gone-not
scrap Of official history Of the town remains.
The interest which is attached to this irrepara-
bic loss can be properly estimated when it is
remembered that Whiteatown 9az the first
point settled in Oneida county, and WIS for
years the nucleus Of civilization in Central
New York.
The number Of batteries at present in
II
eighteen.
The Kentucky Legislature is debating
what to do with its absent members, eight Of
whom are now in the revolutionary govern
ment at Bowling Green, and six Others ttabsent
and unaccounted for" 1t is proposed to
strike their names from the roll. In this con-
nection the Louisville Journal says it is some
1rhof rnr7 arE o3,1e III of Eon1{,r Erovor md D.,
preventative NeYens. both of Owen county,
leaders in the "peace" party Of the Legisla~
ture {tlat counts dozen membcrs) are both
Northern men by birth.
The Boston 1rart2zer is informed that
Gen. Phelps, the hero Of the Ship Island pro-
clau1ation, has been in former years subject to
occasional fits Of insanity, The it seems to
be on him now.
The charge against Col Halsted, Of the
LIST New Jersey Cavalry, who is undergoing
| court martia1 at Washington lis the signing o.
| acquisitions on the Quartermastes' Depart
| ment, without reading them, in the hurry 0;
business.
! Frank E. Mer1iman Of Westfeld, Mass.
has been expelled from the Massachusetts ba]
for tampering with election ballots in news
paper Office.
/ The Board Of Education Of New YorI
city, laye fixed the salaries Of teachers 4
81, 800 for the highest, and thence down Il
$50. The highest salary paid a female tcache
Is $7OO
| Out Of 10000 troops at Benton Barracks
there we're a few days since $500 on the sicl
list. The deaths range from SO to 10 q week
or total Of 242 in four weeks. The barzack
are called good, but they are badly ventilated
Fatal sickness is the Legitimate consequence
I Gen. Reynolds arrived at Lafayett Ind
{his residcnce) last Friday afternoon, on bus
ness, and was received by 4 public dtmor
stration that embraced nearly the entire city.
-Forty-four societies have reported then
selves to the Secretary Of Iowa Army sanitat
Commission at Lyons, Rev. Geo. F. Magou1
and are efficiently providing for the sick an
wounded soldiers Of the State.
The Davenport Gazette foots up that th
steamboat arrivals during the summer vel
747, beginning with Is in March and cndin
with in December.
Next week the cars will be moving frol
Jackson, ION the hGch15 5-n Central to With
three miles Of Lansing, and the directors q
{ using every ezcrtion to have the road opens
{ through in season for the extra session of tt
, Legislature.
b Lieut.. Col. VIM. e. Mobiles, commando
the 18th New York, {Highlanders') Regimen
,~ at Port Royal, has resigned In order to supe
:, intend the collection Of cotton ia the st. 3
- lena district. This makes the fourth chan
y in the command Of the regiment since it to-
/" the field.
It Late adEices from Tybee say that t
'e stone vessels were not to be sunk in Savann
J harbor as proposed, our possession Of Tyt
n being enough to control the main entrance
,c There arc now but three regiments
IA | naming in the vicinity Of 1ronton, Mo-,
- 21st, SD and 3sth Illinois, who have comic
- able quarters at Ironton, Arcadia and
Knob, respectively. Since August there b:
becn sixteen different regiments at Iront
besides artillery and cavalry; and the hosp
in las had in all CAT patients, Of whom Il b
hn died and - now remaining under treatme
as Capt. Chambers, q. s. mastering off
at for Iowa, and the new Colonel Of the Il
ed 10Th, will arm lis men with the Belgian ri
Tar proposes to pick over.
nd Tho Attorney General Of Ohio dec
be- that it makes no difference in What Sta
De- citizen cnlists into the service Of the Un
es- Suites, so fur as concerns the claim Of
m family fhc has onc} for relief from the ST
Ser This is the first decision Of the kind on rec
gi- AL the other States disown such Of their
Ing zeDs as have gone elsewhere to enlist, and
mi Adjutant General Of Massachusetts has n
ON suit in the courts against recruiting of
the from New York, to test the question, as
ing tween those two States.
'ig- Mr.. Prentice, Of the Louisville Jow,
uld was to present flag to Reseerans's brig
les, across Green river, on Monday, (yesterda,
ain Hon. David Tod, the Governor elct
the Ohio, On leaving home for Columbus last ?
rsc, WAS visited by the three hundred emplo
'ay- of the Brier Hill mines, to whom he ma
clever little farewell speech.
-. City Marshnl c. a. HinckIey, Of CT
my land, Ohio, has been sentenced to three ]
rig in the Pcnitcntiary, for perjury and
va swearing, in order to secure the convictit
hat o man arrested 1or crime. Ills case WILL 6
,ig- the Supreme Court, however, on ut
1ho | error.
1st The mammoth steamer Constitution,
len bore Gen. Phelps's division Of Buffers
,ter dition TO Ship Island, has arrived at Bo
1ars ready to take the balance Of the troops
nip Gen Butter hamscu TO COMMAND the II
5 is Gen. Butler was expected to return