, 1861-07-04
Domestic Items.


vania, about three hundred pay.
Nearly every man in Lamont Mich has gone
to the war, says the paper published at Grand
Haven.
The Navy Department has adopted new and
secret system for the use Of vessels In the SER
vice. ..
Orders were issued May 80, for the return Of
the 7th Regiment to New York, to be mustered
out Of service. r s.. 81.
Hugh Mather, Of Chicago, Is the lowest bidder
for the great beef contract for the army. He
offers to deliver it for S44s.
A Colonel Of one of the New York Zouave
regiments has not been heard from for ten days,
and $4,000 raised for the regiment is also miss
ing.
The n. Y. World says two Lieutenants in the
rebel army have resigned, having become utterly
disguised. Troops were poorly fed, and had
received no pay. HnH
general order has been issued by the Wsr
Department, granting to volunteers now enlisted
the same money allowance for clothing as allowed
to the regulars.
II. A.. Wise has written letter assuring ma
turalized citizens Ct Virginia that they will be
amply protected under the Government Of the
Confederate States. iaa
An act was passed by the Confederate Con-
gress previous to adj0urning. prohibiting ship
ments Of cotton from the Confederate States,
except through seaports Of said States.
1t is said that the Virginia Newton Rifles.
Roger Pryor's company, voted in body the
straight Union ticket. much to Pryors ,iud.gnS
ton, who Immediately disbanded them.
People are visiting Alexandria to gct souvenirs
Of the place where Ellsworth was killed. Car
pets are cut up into Shreds, and pieces Of the
stairs covered with his blood, taken away.
A Southern paper learns that British bankers
are ready to furnish the Southern COnfeiefalS
with any amounted money that may BE- required.
As the papers say, this is " important, If true"
Il is said, by an eyewitness, that negro
company Of one hundred free blacks has been
raised at Petersburg, presented with Confetl-
crate flag" and sent 10 Norfolk to aid n throw
ing up entertainments.
When Il Is considered that there are flfty-iour
avenues leading into the city Of Washington, It
will readily be seen that tho services OG thou.
sands Of men will be required successfully tode.
fnd the Capital.
The Hartford Tmss instances pS one .of the
remarkable phases Of the present internal war,
that citizens Of the same State win be arrayed
agalns each other. Kentucky and Virginia
send regiments on bOth sides to fight iol "
Ex Secretary Cobb has written letter 10 the
Athens (Ga.) Banner. in which he announces
bis intention to retire from public life at the ex-
piration Of his present term Of office lie Is
now President Of the Southern Congress,
The New Orleans authorities ~ a hunting Gor
Ab0litionists. The last one thev caught proved
to be an agent of the Southern Aid Society, who
was engaged 10 distributing bills to the people.
negroes included. He was released with rep
riTnand. 90. 500 '-.. I
Tho New Orleans Delta says that the cost Of
maintaining the Southern army at Fort Picksns
Is ten thousand dollars par IlaV alsn tl,at the
time for taking the old scat Of Government At
Washington. without desperate battle, is evil
IDENTIFY gone by.
We learn from eood authoFitv, that when Gen.
Pillow telcgraphcd frnm Nashville 10 Montgomery
that he could raise ten thousard volunteers to
join the Southern army. he was Informed that
the troops were not desirable, Unless accompanied
Vith provisions. 20 NJ
About forty of the students Of the Wesleyan
University, at Middleton, Conn, have formed
military company, and drill every day on the
college campus. They have Offered Themselves
f,r immediate action, and Il Is thought they may
soon be called into the field.
The city NJ Fredericksburg, Va, has voted 10
ssue shinplasters, running as low as fifty rents,
10 the amount Oi fifty thousand dollars. Rich
mond and Norfolk have already done the same
thing, only Richmond to six times the amount. \
There is no specie in Virginia. a;...4 ~
Indians can probably claim the honor Of fur. !
Wishing the oldest volunteer Of any State IN The
Union. Mr.. Bates Of Pendleton, ninety-two |
wears old, volunt cred with q company from |
Madison county. Mr.. Bates is said 10 he the |
father Of twenty-fOur children. '0
There are queer people in this world. hut few
as queer AZ she who wrote to q gentleman at
Pensacola that " she met Mrs. Lincoln at church |
in Washington, and asked why her husband
was not there with her. She replied that she |
left him at home, under the bed, with q guard
around him." . |
AnEastcrn establishment that has been largely
engaged in the manufacture Of Baltimore skirts
is now employing all its hands IN turning one
now pattern Of "red, white and blue" This
skirt, no doubt. will meet with great favor among
the ladies Of the North, where the cry now is,
Show your coloIs"
Collector Barney, Of the port Of New fcxk,
declines to make any more removals from Office
Of Democrats In reply to an applicanh he rs
said to have remarked, "DemOcrats have en-
LISTED in the army, and their places have been
Allied. II you want occupation, 80 and join
them"
The doctors who advertise themselves by an
Mounting that they will attend the sick families
nf ~