, 1861-12-20
PARAGRAPHS OF ALL SORTS.

Ono Andrew Mcleod, having made one set
Of recruits answer for the obtaining Of boun-
ties from two regiments, in Detroit, is under
arrest, and one Of the officers wronged seeks
redress in the civil courts while the other
wants him tried By court martial. The city
police justice has charge Of the prisoners, and
there was an attempt to snatch him from be-
fore the judge, the other day, by corporals
posse.
Since the 5th Of August last the State Of
New York has furnished to the volunteer sol
dicrs Iii 500 overcoats, 131, 800 jackets, aud
143, SEQ pairs Of pants, at q cost equal to 81
A5,o0o.
Now that New York has the rare promise
Of an honest and capable Mayor, in the person
Of George Opdyke, it is suggested that the
Legislature should abolish the dozen indepen-
dent sscommissions' that have been created
from time to time to curtal and check the
power Of Mayor Wood. The commissions
have indeed abbreviated to almost nothing the
power Of the outgoing Mayor, but they have
also had the effect to increase his popularity as
'spersccutcd victim" Moreover, the taxes
have not been reduced, nor has corruption
been less. The New Workers, therefore, de-
sire now to try Mayor OpdJke with full power,
and they think the machinery Of Government
will not only be simpliicd, but made less cz-
nensi7e and more honest.
The Sixth Ohio regiment, Col Bos1ey,
fa1niliarly known as the eGuthrte Grays,"
have been sent to Cairo They were all sum-
mcr in Western Virgini1-
The Thirty-ninth Ohio regiment, Colonel
John Groesbeck, in Western Missouri, has not
been all together in one place, or under one
command, since when they entered the State
in September.
The Supreme Court at Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania, has refused to enjoin the Pennsy1va-
MIA Central from consuumatiug its lease OF
the Philadelphia & Erie
There are now 6.6o5 troops at Camp Deni-
son, near Cincinnati, embraced in three regi,
mcnts of infantry, (48th, 52d and 54th,) two
regiments Of cavalry, (2d aud 5th,) aud two
batteries Of artillery.
The counties Of Alabams, Mississippi
and Louisiana nearest to Ship Island, contain.
ed, in 1850, 1e9, $50 whites and SO, 8s5 blacks
and their product #as 3,154 bales Of cottor
and 2, ,200, ,a25 pounds Of rice.
The SecesBionists, it Is stated, have take1
possession Of Justice Catron's property arount
Nashville, amounting to $50, coo.
The riaed artillery practice is daily con
tinucd at the navy yard, under the direction Q
Lieut.. Parker. The gunners have acquire,
great proficiency. Experiments are also beint
made with an III apparatus for the election o
"iquid fire." At recent trial, a stead,
stream Of burning fluid was projected t1ft,
yards from force pump contrived for til
| purpose. The locality where the experimcn
| was made WIS covered with perfect sheet @
| fame.
-''Bob,n now called ssBclmont Bob,'' i
the body servant Of Gen. McClernand, and a
the battle Of Belmont it is said Of him tia
when the retreat commenced he started 70
the boats Reaching the banks he dismount
ed and slid rapidly down, when an officer sec
ing the action, called, "stop, you rascal, an
bring the horse" Merely looking up IS b
waded to the plank through the mud, Cairo
character answered, "Can't hey, Colone
Major told me to save most valuable propert,
and dis nigger's worfmore'n horse" It
seldom an estimation OF difference in value ]
more quickly arrived at, Such things At
slight in themselves, but similar scenes al
characters daily seen in camp serve to brea
the monotony and give fairer picture, pe
haps, Of soldier life than anything else.
The Bowling Green rebel government
Kentucky proposes by enactment to max
Confederate shin plasters equal to gold, By
tax Of SIS week upon all such brokers as II
fuse to so receive them on that basis.
| 1t is stated that since tho destruction {
the bridges Oh the Baltimore and Ohio roai
thi1ty-one millions OF dollars, which di.
tributed yearly to its owners nearly two mi
rs dead as if they lay at the bottom Of th
river. In the year ending Sept 80, 1850, thl
road carried into Baltimore 81, 500 cars 1oade
with freight Part of this WAS 1000 head {
cattle, 1D, ,0oo hogs 4, sheep, 200 horse
truckmen, drivers, butchers, tanners, sho
makers, DC, employed by such q bushes
and even then it Is hardly possible to rcali,
the suffering inflicted BY the stoppage Of tn
railroad On the regions at each end and: alop
its line. This road employed 236 enginee
and $, 581 cars.
The really vulnerable point Of New Yor
as Major Barnard, in his admirable rcpoz
: points cut is by an attack from the Lor
Island side. For the complete defense of Il
city there should be a series Of forts and d
fensiEe works extending from Sleeps He:
Bay to Ne~town. Northing but the mo
criminal negligence on the part Of our natio
81, state, and city governments would 10
New York to the enemy in case Of I war.
-Kentueky isegen receiving the troops
Western Virginia, now TINT there is no long
need for them at home. The ID Virginia ca
airy, Col. Boiler, went down to Catletsbur
Kentucky, the other day.
How n Regiment hrs boon Used.
}f the sd Indiaua regiment, at Grab {