The sun., 1861-12-14
Miscellaneous.

Orr Of tho New York papers calls fernAnds
Wood tho real Sinbad.
| THE largest cotton mill in the world is thu
| fight al present going on hetwecn North and
South in America So says Punch.
Mrs. ANNA CoRA MowArr RrronrE, once .
| popular actress, and still a most brilliant we
| man, is spending the winter at Rome, Italy.
TnE Secretary Of tho Navy is aaid to 10 In
favor Of or, ating tho rank of admir- Il, and Of
comforting that honor upon Commodore Charles
Stewart.
In London ono Of the effects cf the news Of
tho seizure OF Mason and Slidell, was TO raise
tho war fi,ks ON vessels 10 New Yoik to five
Guincas.
Ir is probable that the Legislature of Ken
tuckv will emancipate the slaves In that state,
ard imburse .oyal ctize for the losses they
may sustain thereby.
TnEKE is a iumor going that parties who
have vessel. on their hands unemployed, in cpn-
sequence Of the encouragement gwen southern
Iryaieors hy foreign go,ci nments, have dis
latcht d an agent TO Mexico, for the purpose Of
| r. curing from that government letters Of mar
que, under which privateers against her enemyE
commerce may be fitted out in tho northern
ports Of the United S,Atos.
TnE three and only children Of James and
Martha Cottrell, Of Cleveland, Ohio, died late
" on three consecutive days, OF diptheria-
Tho father, a sailor on the lake, was absent
at the time, but came home on Thanksgiving
| bay, ignorant Of what had taken Place, and
net his wife at the door and asked for tho
| children, The mother could not speak. Is
| one of them dead ?" Yes" she said, A" all
Of them, and the poor father fell 20 the floor.
THE - cow-bell dodge" is extansivsly prac-
tsed by the rebels in Virginia, 10 Lure our unso-
phisticated pickets who may not have overcome
their early fondness for milk. The enemy con-
cal themselves at n convenient distance, and
initiate the irregular tinkliDg OF a cow-bell.
The pic&et takes his canteen with q view Of get
ting ilk for his coffee, and does find out his
ni- axe till he hnd- himself surrounded by lot
Of armed rebels, who send him 10 Richmond 70
Ion ent ! 10 ioHy.
a srFNM city passenger car wSs shipped .
'rw days ago from Philadelphia for Havana,
who're II viii be tried as an exPeriment-tbe
.'l de- tf that city being very heavy and pre-
| lldI Z the use Of horse power, The machinery
| ocyupes space equal to two thirds OF the lat
| fam and the water tanks are placed along ore
slIc tnd,r the soar, the other side being used
to eoposit passengers bundles. Several smilT
| CltS Lave been lent 10 Vera Cruz and other
I Nj Xic "a cities.
LErrENASr John p. Wooden, U. s. N,
| who was taken prisoner by the rebels at Mont
| gomery, IN April last, while on his way back
| from Fort Pickens where he had been with dis
| patches has arrived at Washington, having
| been exchanged for the rebel Lieutenant Sharp.
| He states that tho rebels at Montgomery made
great threats against "Lincoln's men," until
| they got news ofthe lending at Port RoyAi,
| from which time they appeared crssti.Iler, AID
denounced the rehel government for not mAking
| better coast deitnsts.
| A GREAr change has occLrel in the political
sentiments of tho citizens OF ahiGgtou, .
| large majority of whom now entertain Union
| pInCiI les. The value Of propc " OF all kintS
| has increased in cOnseq quenco OF the vast inh1x
| Of NoTlherneTS and the rise in the yAlus ct ro4l
| estate has been immense. New bulldisKs sro
| uyeryv here going up and men are now rapidly
acquiriI z fortunes from land snd huildir ~
that formerly could scarcely command a pur-
cl aseT The more extreme secassonists are
retting discouraged by the triumph OF the
Union movement, and the wealthisr classes II
them are leaving for Europe OF Texas, whore
they propose to settle.
CoLoNEL Mulligan and his family arrived at
| Washington on the 9Th instaJt. In an inteS-
| view " h him he informed the correspondent
| of the Philadelphia Pass that the simple Oh
| ioct Of his visit TO Washington is To obtain au-
| thOrty TO raise new regiment. He tinds him
self without commission, under an order from
tho comm Anding general, which exdnguishea
the commissions of officers in the regiment a
they are muste cred out Of service. His reg'm' nj
Was enlisted and sworn in for three yeaIs. Thsy
| were all taken prisoners, ard the colonsl himsei
| was at the same time in the anomalous posi- ion
of civilian and prisoner Of war. 1hs Gov
, erDment will probably grant Colonel Muilieai
authority TO raise a regiment without delay
: He has at band nearly men enough tos that paz
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