, 1862-01-30


MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Miss Julia Farrell, Of Chicago, has had q ver-
dict Of $4,000 damages rendered in her favor,
against an Oculist whom she alleged destroyed
the sight Of one Of her eyes by an unskillful
operation.
There are now seventeen full regiments Of In
diana troops Infantry IN Kentucky, and three
companies Of cavalry and one Of artillery. They
number eighteen thousand one hundred and
seventy-eight men.
Ex Governor WickIiffe, Of Kentucky, ex-
Postmast' General, etc, is loyal 10 the hearts
core, but has a sou in the Rebel army. That
son attempted to apply the torch to his own
fathers house IN BardstOwh, but Gen. Anderson
sent a regiment to the rescue.
Lotus Otway, British Consul General at
Milan, has died of a broken heart. lie was once
Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico, but for an
"errOr in Judgment" was recalled by Lord
John Russell and an inferior station given him.
The disgrace was felt SO keenly that he cGuld
not survive it.
The Richmond Examiner, speaking Of the
Federal Troops, says: Take them all in all, their
forces are MS precious set Of rascals as could
be scraued together with a inc-tooth comb from
the pat-hOuses and heli.hOuses Of tue North.
They have been fertilized by filth, and grown
up crisp, fresh, and unmiigatedly wretcLed from
the mire Of municipal corruption.
The new tunnel on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
at Carpenters station, has just been completed; /;
5000 yards Of masonry and 500 900 bricks were
used in building it. Il is five hundred and fifty
feet in length, twenty-five feet high aud twenty
four feet wide. The abutments are all Of rock
range work. One hundred men were employed
for four months on its construction
One DR.. Darrh has been arrested in Brides
burg, Penn, on charge Of bigamy. lie has
had four wives, the last Of whom he married six
weeks ago at Bridesburg Some time since there
were suspicious that he was the "go between"
Of gang Of SecessioniSts in Philadelphia, vii.
mingtOn and Dover, and unsuccessful attcmrts
were made to arrest him. lie is now under
81, 500 bonds.
An abuse has crcpt into some departments,
and to the White House as we'll by which mes.
scngers levy customs upon seekers for admission
to the officials in one or the other A quarter
eagle was paid by n gentleman the other day 10
the dOorkeepcr at the Presidents fnr adnttance
to His Exccllcncy. The gentleman had, for
many davs IN succession, tried to get access to
the President, but failed until he put the gold
under his card, into the rn'sSengeTs hands; he
quickly thereafter was called, and ushered in.
The editor Of the Mercer (Pa) Dispatch gives
\ description Of an extraordinary vein Of oil
tapped the other day on McElhany farm, at a
depth Of 400 feet lie sNys:-AA watch was
held while II ran into tank holding, by measure,
one hundred and eight barrels and It filled the
same in tiity-dve minutes. At iair estimate,
taking this as data, those who were working
and watching about Il sre confident that in the
first twenty-fnur hours Il flowed two thousand
fur hundred barrels Of oil
The British Quarterly for july contains the
following amusing statement nf " facts BE
Il remembered that since the 18th Of Anril
Fort Sumter has been in the hands Of the Sc.
cessiOnsts, and that the ten th,usand Carroll
mans who took Il only lost some two or three
hundred men. Fort Pirkens, which commands
the entrance Of tIie Gulf OF Mexico. is also in
possession Of the Southern CONFEDERATION, which
possesses Fort Monroe in Virginia, Fort McIIenrv
in Maryland. a large fortress on Delaware, and
the arsenal in New Albany and Kentucky.
A year or two ago, handsome octnroon girl
was settled by her father, Mississippi planter.
at Cleveland with some old cOlOrrd servants.
under the guardianship Of the Judge Of Probate
and the Rev, y q. White. The sum of $3O,n0O
was appropriated to her support, tho funds be-
ing derived from the rent Of some property in
Cincinnati, amounting to some 81, 100 per an.
mum. Owing to depression Of business, the
The Cleveland Herald states that in view of this
condition oi affairs, the establishment has broken
up, the old servants dismissed 10 Shi't for them.
selves, and the girl has been taken into the fam.
ilv Of Mr. White, who has removed to Ehole
Island The case Is now beiore the Cuynhnga
Probate Court, Nv. White having carried Of the
girl without previously consulting the co-guar-
,lian, Judge Tilden.
A blind man named Thomas Bishop is under
bonds in Cleveland, Ohio, to stand his trial on y
charge Of marrying three wmen, all blind.
within the snace NJ eight davs. The Lender
saws that on (he 10th Of September he was mar
ried At the American Housc, in Cleveland, to q
lady of Huron county, At wGich time 1 Q as.
sumed the name Of William Gibeau. Seven
DAYS thereafter, assuming the name # GibcauI,
he married young lady of Cleveland On tlc
next day, September 18th, he left the city. TAX
ing with him al the othine and valuables 6fI
both women. and Afterwards married a third
wife At MarietiA, OhiO. He Is graduate nf the
Ohio State Institute for the Blind Of Columbus.
a. are al Of the ladies' whom he has saccreded
in duping, and there madp their acquaintance .
few years since. The ladies are represented .
n uuimreanhahle character, and are deeply aym