The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-12-14
Odds and Ends.

HEAVY CONTRACTS 1t is stated that II.
L. Lehman, of Lancaster, Penn, has re-
ceived from the War Department contract
for rihing and repairing a large lot of arms.
This contract involves an expense to the
Government of nearly 100000. Pennsyl-
vania foreverl
Charivari publishes an engraving which
represents in the back ground the two
armies in America engaged in battle, while
in the foreground Uncle Tom lies sleepipg,
and gentleman is made to say to him =
"Rise up, Uncle Tom, it is time you wers
doing something for yourself"
A COOP HIT.-A volunteer and some
citizens were talking about the war, at Ell
mira, few DAYS since, when a difference
having arisen, some person proposed TO set
tie it by taking drink. "No / mol" said
the volunteer, "that is not the way to talk.
You and all other men, who can possibly
| leave home, should at once agree to enlist.
This war must be fought out and settled
with all possible dispatch. Drinking won'
settle a.; for If 1t a0ouId our officers
a0ouJd hare settled IL Tong agoP
The New Orlerns Bee, of the I'd inst,
! announces the arrival there of the man
Franco, who was two or three times arrest
who, though convicted of the crime at the
last trial, was released through some tech
nicality. The citizens of New Orleans are
represented as receiving him with loud
congratulations on his escape from the
I Lineolnites = Louisville Democrat
I Coz FULLER, who was detained at Spring.
! field, says that the Texans freely comment
ed upon the charge of zagonyi-admittinq
that it was without precedent for gallantry
and repeating frequently that every mar
IN il was q hero.
| Joseph II. Sears, of South Carolina, has
| been appointed Postmaster at Port Royal
| The details of the office have been arranged
| and mail matter will be despatched by sea from
New York. Letters for rybee Island viii
be despatched to Port Royal, and thence t.
the former place.
A man in Boston is exhibiting . new in.
vention by which abe makes boots in fitteer
minutes" and the Boston Post swears tina
he performs the work neatly aud in tbs
time specified.
The REBEL ARMY.-The New York Her
aid has revised and repablished its state
msnt of the organization and dimensions o
the rebel army. 1t is due the Herald's en-.
terprise to say, that when this document
was originally published, it made a sensa
tion in Richmond, and the Ietter-writeri
0ongregated there declared that suspicionl
were afoat that some one in the War Office
had played the traitor. The Herald says
l. THIS statement shows that the rebels hav,
in The field four hundred and fifty regiments
which, reducing the average strength of {
regiment to eight hundred men-which il
/ probably about the nearest approximation
TO the truth-giyes an aggregate force o
$4,000 men.
AS one of the incidental connection
of the present war, we Eotice that an offic,
has been opened in Washington for EN-
balming the dead. Their system is that o.
the celebrated Surqnet, of Paris-by an in
lection of a powerful antiseptic fluid, which
soon hardens the tissues to marble-lik
substance, and perfectly preserves the colo
and features, and keeps the body free from
all offensfTe odor.
SKILFUL WoRKMANsHIP.--We, have seei
a curious and ingenious specimen of handi
work, executed by VIM. Henry Baldwin, jr
a prisoner OF war, who was wounded at tn
battle of Manassas. LISA pipe, made @
mahogany, and richly carved with inimita
tions of leaves and flowers, while the mouth
piece and mountings are wrought of bee
bones, polished like ivory The only instru
ments used in this extraordinary specimel
of carving were old steel pens, which til
prisoner picked up. He has presented it t
DR.. Higinbotham, surgeon Of the post, as
token of gratitude for Kindness shown t
him during a long period of suEering.-
Richmond Dispateh. s ssE
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