, 1862-07-31

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
On the 18th ult, Government gave notice that
the Churches in Washington city would be
taken possession Of, to be used as hospitals. A
dispatch subsequent to that date says "the dis
loyal residents Of Washington are greatly exer-
ciSed at the act Of Gen. WadSworth in selzing
three Secession Episcopal churchtsin in that city for
hospital purposes. The rebel vestrymen ti
Trinity Church are enraged at the seizure Of
their church.
Letters from England state that several vessels,
including one nr two steamers, were up for Vic.
tura, and would leave crowded with passengers.
The steamers were announced to stop at San
Francisco on the way to Victoria.
Six persons have been condemned to be shot
by the Military Commission, for violation Of their
parole, given at Fort Jackson, in organizing a
military company for service in the rebel army.
General Butler approved the sentence. The re-
bels will learn after while that there Is q Gov
ernnent To punish traitors as we'll as to protect
citizens.
The Prince Of Wales, in Egypt, has shown
himself to possess qualities worthy of true
t aveler. He travels without pretensiOn, wa ks
a good deal, and rolls up his trousers and ades
from the bUat tO the shnTe Of the Ni'e, when
most Of his suite arr carried on the backs Of ma.
tives.
There is said to be lady mt thousand miles
from ArOostOUk, Me, who lrIl home 10 attend u
ball on New Years Eve On account Of the
drlted state Of the road, she was unable to Ie-
turn as soon as she anticipated, but by dint Of
peISeyer Inee got within wU miles Of home, at
the close of four days, and sent for her baby.
The wife Of each soldier resident in the State,
enlisted in Wisconsin regiment receives from
the Sta live dollars per month, and each child
under twelve years Of age. $S ner no III.
Should the soldier 10 Q his II, in the serve /,
the same liberal bounty inures to his family So
long aS it may be needed. This care for the
families Of those who enlist has been the means
Of securing an excellent class Of men.
Ex-senator (now rebcO BenjSmin is q noted
gambler, and has wasted IN his way the vast in
come which at one period he derived from his
professional practice. On one occasiOn after OBJ
tanning $7O,0OO in great case against the ce!,-
brated John Randolph Grimes, be sat down for
three days to gambling table, and Sidell in
that time won every dollar Of that SUN from
him. Slidell is celebrated Tor his skill at this
business, and has accumulated much Of his fol-
tune, it is said, in this way.
In replying e. the custO nary add esses pre-
sented to him on New Years day, the King Of
Prussia said that PRUSSIA can calmly behold
whatever events may arise from the state (
things in nOn-EurnpeVn countries, because her
army STANDS ready, firm and armed"
A singular punishment Of public degradation
was inflicted few weeks ago at ST. Petersburg,
on Michael MikhaiOf guilty Of propagating 81.
ditOuS writings sword vas formally broken
over his back, aud he was sent for six years to
work in the Siberian mines.
Capt Boyce, Of the Tenth Ohio Regiment,
who las arrived at Evansville, Indiana, from
Huntsville, Alabama, states Gen. Mitchell has
granted pa,ses to John Bell aud Jere Clemens
to visit Washington, Er the purpose Of establish
| ing peace in the Southwest
The sword voted to Com. Wilkes by the city
Of Boston has been given to that gentlemtn /;
Mayor Wghtman making pertinent speech on
the occasion. IN the course Of his reply, Com.
Wilkes said that il the Trent affair were to be
done again, he should as he did last Novem.
Der
The Mobile Tribune states that hitter jra'.
ouSy exists b tween Gen. Butler and Porter aud
FarIRgut. Faragut was said to have decla ell
that without the presence Of the hcrt, he would
not give one cent for the security Of Buffers liz,
or that of the army. Gen Butler was about to
leave for the North, being fearful Of his life.
Some spicy correspondence recently to0k place
between BE uiegard and llalrck. The Ernrr
charged llaIeck with putting of on him son e
| Rebel prisoners who had the small pOx, with q
view of breeding Pestlence in the Rebel army.
llallcck denied.
"When can read my title clear"-"Good
God! here is a Yankee!" So sang AMI ex.
claimed female Rebel in a Norfolk church last
Sunday, as in the midst of ncr hymn she looked
III
scat.
jeff DaviS's Adjutant General publishes
general order directing the drafting Of every
male and white mnlattO in the South capable Of
bearing arms, whether they have substitutes or
not.
The Louisville Journal says that the Rebels have
no salt, yet they have managed to get into ,r, {.
InrnduuS pickle. Also that in Bcauregards pro-
ClamatiOn we recognize his hardest elbows"
The Nashville Union terms the Rebel govern
ment the great Southern Skefdderacy"
The Iron Brigade" is the new name given
by McCllla army to Gen, Sicklvs's New
York Excelsior Brigade since the Battle Of the
Pines
The Rebels rate their own forces at Richmond
at ninety y.Rvs thousand men and McClellans at
one hundred and twenty thousand.
Over three thousand Of the dead Rebels have
been buried by our troops at Fair Oaks. One
Of the Rebel generals taken still refuses to give
in his name.
Camp Douglas, Chicago nov embraces one
hundred and fourteen acres. Il contains 962
Rebels. Five hundred and ten have died or
been discharged.
Among the women, says the New York Tri.
bHRe, who have figured uuring the prrsel " Ir,
and whose names will appear hereafter on the
pages Of history, IL Mrs. Brownell, wife Of Or.
derly Sergeant r. D. Brownell, Of the Rhode
Island VOunterrS aud cousin to the avrnger Of