, 1861-12-05

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Careful wives will do wei to remember
tia. il has been settled that the celebrated
Sessus shirt was Il shirt aeith all lie buttons o6.
I, was sent to Hercules pnrposcly to annoy
him, and the effect was that every time he put
il on the absence Of tile buttons used to put
Hercules into such burning rage that ultl-
u1ately it w:,s the death Of him.
This is military age. All over our own
country the schools Of our youth arc taking
On Il military cast, aside from the many being
established with such more or less exclusive
speciality. France may set us an example in
this matter. Just now it is reported that the
eI 11uts &c troupe ofthc French army, OF whom |
there arc between 6,000 and 1000, arc, after |
| they have passed ten years Of age, to be sup |
Piled with light muskcts and bayoncts, for /
the purpose Of being instructed in their use,
| with view to tue formation Of corps, from
which the non-commissioncd officers arc to
| be selected for the army. At seventeen years
| Of see they are to be admitted into the ranks,
SC that tleir military education will have been
completed On entering tho service.
Good horses some Of our cavalry hare at
Washington Ono correspondent speaks ola
company he SAW at recent review, WHICH hc
prououuccs, with the exception Of the horses
and 1hc men, one of the finest cavalry 1nobs
| he ever saw. The horses arc new pattern:
duted sides, polished knobs on the launches,
ard Il hand rail al tho way down the back A
rebel caught sight Of one Of these fine AMI
, mails, the other day, and Immediately ftinted-
1t was aftcr1ard asccrtaincd that he owned a
| field of oats in the ncighborhood.
Col John G. W'atmough, Of Philadelphia,
!. who served rs Lieutenant Of artillery at Chip
: pcwa, Lundy's Lane and Fort Eric, in 1913
and IL, died few days since, aged 68 years.
He was Representative III Congress from 1881
t to ,35, subsequently Sheriff Of the county, and
$ later Collector Of the port.
: Tho Democracy Of New Hampshire have
called their State Convention for January 18th.
, The Pennsylvania Roundhcad regiment,
f at Port Royal, arc getting out 4 neat little pa
!, per, entitled The Camp Kettle, and "publislcd
every opportunity"
Frazer River in these war times Fills tx
s attract much attention, but latest accounts re
| pQ[L LIT uAAl1E uueJ tAAA R4osReAoe.G' - 49,
&c ter, dated in October, says:
:, | expectations. Tho Last steamer took down tn
4 enormous sum Of 5000, she makes trip ono M
web and gsnsfay tnkss Esnns aX
It's quaintcd with arc taking from 51oQ to f4eo oaS
o One day there Vas taken ont o. one eaaan r. 2 e
"A and il Is likely worth more than SIG per o9nc!
There will be great rush here 3s1t year, 1sn IL
tn enough to make fellow crazy to hear the account
~ that come down by every steamer.
He We learn from the Nashville -LouisTll
~ Courier of the 26th ult-, that on the o25th,
IS. SQUAD Of twelve men were sent to Frankll
ain Nv, 10 arrest some Union men who were 50
'ur to bc committing depredations in that nels
ing borhood They had collected to the numb
by | OF twelve or fifteen at the house Of ono
ing their number, oxe Bell, and dcfying the part
oil fired upon them, killing one man, said to
>,,, Lee, Of Louisville, and wounding one or II
49, more, The rebels then charged the house Al
49, set fire to it, burning it and Ill Of tic men
o4e it, it is believed, except I'VE, who escape
hs, The Courier says detachment of twenty-fi
lat cavalry under Capt. John Morgan arrived
cnt, Franklin on the 25t1, to arrest the parties
is picated, but no one is SO simple rs to belle
md. that any arrests will be made.
An entirely new fashion has been int
duecd by indies who arc Justly entitled to
4hc looked 1p to as models. It has obtslned
~ ~ most unboundcd appreciation from gentlen1
, VI who have the happiness to be fathers or L
ion, | bands. 1t consists Of the dresses which W
our purchased LAST winter, and which having be
be carefully PIT away conc out WIN saa an nns
Pon crs OF the fashion have gone SO far as to pl
up in the Savings Bank the money which 4
pre- dresses would have cost, but this habit IS
.ates present confined 10 ladies Of the most cSqs
xDr4+ 14,1t tt@2r7 n nfrrA1n
yer fitting habit WILL however, it is prognost
lera- ted, Lave many inlitators.
Was Gen. Rosccrans has determined to rem
, the his headquarters for the winter from Gau
Bridge to Wheeling, and has intrustcd the
{ len 4. g. Quartemaster at that city to provide su
IL IL bic accommodations. Gen. Benham has
5,4ss rived at Wheeling under arrest, to await
sssas for letting Floyd slip through his fingers.
u ,6es Gen Banks's headquarters arc to bt
s'sa1 Frederick, Md, for the winter.
Ohio troops continue to be poured
II rs Kentucky, from Western Tirginia or the
egtae camps Among the recent segunents pas
nsir. down are the 18th, Col. VIM s. Smith, +
ns in Western Virginia; the SD, Col Sargent, +
meas Camp Dcnnison; ths 10th, Col Lytlc, I
that Gau1ey: the 18th and 18th regulars, (det
are of uents) from Columbus; etc, The conso
ne far ton Of regiments, now about to be made,
,cr of throw in at least 10000 fresh troops vi
t five two weeks.
(s1an Tho number Of troops passing thrt
Philadelphia, last week, to the scat Of vi
,nao COCO; and this, it should be remembore
ore of only one rontc, the other bein. 7la Easto'
,cncr,1 Harrisburg to Baltimore.
~ III. - At the camp Of our Chicago zouaF
1n l Enzabcthtown, Kv,. three inches Of snos
= ~ on fIldny night Of last week, astonishin:
oldest kentucky inhabitant.
Tho nth Illinois at Elizabcthtown,
10 eAss. tucIy, received acw outfit of uniforms
tens OF days since. They report $50 men fit for
camps, The Indianapolis L,,,,.a 7aa,:..
gums cdIy false, the reports that Goy, Morto,
blacks fishing for Major-Generrs commiss;
the army.
ldcr, at | pp-;us Il p,a+t. }otc ciiter ,e II, -.
ano' Us t!cboro {Vt.) IHonix, has been appointc,
master in the army.
,aaIorn5 ,nEnEE Col Horace G. Lee Of Springfield,
1e use Of eth Massachusetts regiment, now at Al
IRE much lis waiting to go off with Burnsides
atructcd | ton, dcchncs to 60 into the slave ca
and one business, and gave master short moi
ooo,oas quit his camp the other day.
~ - The *spenny post" ut Philadelphia,
as Blood's Dispatch has been discon
10. under the order Of tho Department de-
ancaster, the streets Of cities to be post routes
l. Moore, Fire Marshal Blackburn, Of PhilAd
Ia North Gays, as far as Philadelphia is concernes
ouo"1ng g7atifcd to state that out Of about one
rs camp, business places doing Government NO
ealing to have been either destroyed or damaged
required since last spring, thorc WAS not s par
h Of ale | testimony obtained to prove that {