, 1862-02-06

some ct the American Army Chapains are
not at all pleased with the regulation uniform
prescribed Ior them, without gilt buttons or in
sigma Of any description. This is the choice Of
the unObirusIve clrrgymCn WHO have come to
minister to the spiritual warts Of those in camp;
but others who have sported swords, shoulder.
straps, gilt buttons aud regulation hats, disIke
to relinquish them.
| Upwards Of thousand hands are employed
at the Troy IN. W ArSeual, and the greatest
activity prevails in all the departments. As
many as three hundred and forty thousand ball
cartridges were lately made in one day, to com.
plete an urgent order from the War Department.
The average is two hundred aud fifty thousand
| per diem. Upwards Of ten thousand men are
now employed at the Brooklyn, Charlestown,
Philadelphia, Washington aud Portsmouth Navy
Yards.
| The Richmond Examiner of October 7th had
| the subjOined :-lu the rapid exhaustion Of all
sorts ol supplies in the South, We must look for
an alternative Of relief, either in the raising Of
the blOrkade or in the prompt and entcrprisng
aid Of Southern capital, in the production aud
manufacture Of various articles OF prime neces-
sity. We have plenty Of corn and -four, rice
and tobacco, and cotton, but very little OF any
thing else. As winter approaches, many OF our
supplies are being fast exhausted. Our markets
are nearly bare Of candies, starch, soap, OIL
bacon, refined sugars salt, iron, shoes, clothing
and other necessary supplies The demand for
bacon, an article Of prime necessity, is largely
in excess Of the supply, with exceedingly small
stocks in the hands of dealers.
From the latest returns it appears that the
kingdom Of Poland contains 5,s5O,G0o inhsbi-
tants OF that number 6O0,00O are Jews, Of
whom oil 900 live In town, and $1,000 in the
| districts MarsnU has lRh MN inhnhi.
IAnts 900 Of whom are Jews. At the CEN
sus Of 1916, Poland contained only 2l3,DO0
Jews, Of whom l44,O00 were in large towns
and 9,OUO in villages. As regards the Jewish
population. Poland is divided into four cate
gOries: !. Towns in which Jews may reside
without any restriction; 2. Privileged towns in
terdIcled to Jews; .. those III which they can
only reside in certain quarters. as at Warsaw f;
aud 1. What is called tue iroiIticr dstrict-that
is TO say, 2l versls, (abpul l3 mes) from the
frontier, near which residence is severely inter-
dictvd to them, from the fear that they would
engage in smuggling.
4 dancer Of Vienna fell in love with Middle.
Wmkier, the daughter Of another dancer, and
deN.anded her in marriage of her father, who re-
fused Only one thing, TO Ge man apprehen'
sion, remained tO bu done. Instead Of running
away with the girl, he invited her 10 take wa K
with him in forest near Baden, and there,
whether with or without ker consent, shot her
dead with pistol, after which he blew out his
own brains.
Seventeen private soldiers of the French
army, in Bonaparte's time, by their bravery and
talents, raised themselves TO the following dis
tnguished stations: Two became kings; two
princes; nine dukes; two iield marsl.als, anu
two generals.
As an improvement upon the barharous word
Telegram" the more exp, sssive One vi "tell y.
whoPper' has been suggested.
The tobacco cOnlscateJ at Richmond, on the
suPpOsition that it belonged 10 Auguste Belmont,
is sad TO belong to the ROtbschildS The Con
iederate thieves were little too fast
The EInpress Of Austria recently paid visit
TO the British ship Of the liiie Queen, at Corfu,
aud is described as going about very plainly
dressed, IL q white dress and a round hat, 81 her
magnificent hair and her lovely face her sole
adolqments" ll- l-Afal4.s
Over three thousand bales of rags have just
been received In London from Japan, and three
hundred bales from China. The English paper
makers take up tie stock. ff.1I i
The official rrturns Of the trade Of Bombay
have been published, aud show an increase oi
about two millions sterling, the exports amount
ing to Els, ,4SO, 600, and tie imports " gle 620
900. AS the trade Of Calcutta Is always equal
to that Of Bombay, and. that sof Mairas a6ou,
six millions, the total trade Of lnda, which IN
1913 was two millions may now bs taken at
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