, 1861-06-13

Domestic items.

KCu RlNpr threatens 10 Seceuc IfOln lllc MlsslS-
spp and empty itself into Berwick's Bay.
Whenever You drink, be sure you have your nose
above water, is Prentices very excellent advice to
the world.
Col W. w. Scaton, editor of the National In
| teliigencer, has been appointed Postmaster at
Washington city.
The whole number of volunteer military COM
panies in Georgia is 2l3, in which sorie $4,000
men are enrolled.
! Of Sis, which had been given him to buy a leg
| They were arrested but not hung.
/ Mary Devinc pauper in the Cleveland work
house, lately fell heir to 81 900, and suddenly be-
came an object Of solicitOus interest.
A wife only seventeen years old has been arrested
at Delhi, Del, charged with poisoning her husband,
John Harrington, with arsenic.
Fort Adams, in Newport (R. I) harbor. is said
to be the largest ard most formidable fortress in
the country. 1t cost about S5,00O,O0O.
The New Orleans Delta advises the coinage of
cents by the Confederate States Government, with
the head of Jefferson Davis on them.
Mr. Perres, the late Rabbi of the Hebrew church
in Memphis, has recovered $4,000 in u suit for
uuiIluSSs uSdiiist MS SOiSINSoelVh
Mrs. Lincoln is very fond Of garieHing it is said,
and the grounds about the Executive mansion are
being taStcGully arranged by her orders.
A Texas paper says that Gov. Houston is worth
property valued at $l6OOOO. His return to the
ASSESSOR shows about $4,000.
PetouJ,ua peep of Day. is the name Of a news
paper in the Chippewa language, just started at
| Sarina by Rev. Thomas Hurbut.
A facetious writer from Pensacola Point says:
q Commander Bragg has nearly completed his for
| tifcatiOns, and is ready now to sec company"
An cntcrprising individual in Troy. n. Y, ad-
vertsc TO furnish asprants for Office with sigma
lures to petitions at the rate Of one dollar hum
drcd.
Mrs. Caroline NJ King, of New York, recently
killed herself by taking corrosive submate, because
she found pair Of lady's gloves in her husbands
pocket. ...
1t appears that the Captain-CIenera Of Cuba
snubbed the Southern Commissioners when there.
He did not recognize such power as the Southern
Conledcracy.
An Ohio paper thinks it possible that whistle
may be made ont Of pigs tail but Il is debat-
able question whether or not great men cah be
made out of Col. Ellsworth. ~"
An offceseeker at Auburn, N. Y, rests his hopes
upon fatteriug chart Of his chronological devel-
opments, which, with other credentials, he has for
warded to Washington.
| Nothing but caps are worn now in Georgia.
Hats are at discount, and military caps crown
child, boy, and man alike. Even coachmen dr. We
in military gloves, and wear military boots.
1t is estimated that the agitation Of the slavery
question has cost this country, in twenty-five years,
three thousand millions Of dollars And now, at
last it threatens to cost the Union its existence.
"Top Boots" noted dun of Philadelphia, who
derived his name from his pedal coverings died
recently at the age Of SO. He was one Of the
most persistent collectors that ever haunted de-
linquent debtor.
| A young girl of l8 years named Ennis, residing
| in Champaign county. Ohio, very foolishly went
to ball one night against her mothers wishes.
Being rprovcd on her return, with still greater
folly she went to a stable and hung herself
The n. Y. World says the price of American
flags has risen four hundred per cent. within the
last ten days and bunting, which few weeks ago
found few buyers at seven dollars bale, is now
hard to get at twenty.
The Legislature of Nova Scotia has behaved in
| the most handsome and neighb0rly manner unall-
oS tro;,hTns ~ ,bo fT,;toJ S,o,os n5 I rarSontI,,
nrov;ng Far tho rcStorat;on NJ yeoco -
A young gentleman graduated at Yale College
| recently with white head and whiskers, who en-
tered with auburn locks and beard. The change
took place in one night, on account Of the anxiety
incident to biennial examination.
York for q patent for paper neckties, printed in
imitation Of silk and gingham with great exact
ness and beauty This firm sold last season, Of
one single style of clock Decktes seventeen thou
, sand dozen. ...