The Goodhue volunteer. [volume] (Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minn.) 1861-1864, 1862-04-23
Miscellaneous Items.

! Ihe total receipts OF the POst Office De-
part,nent from Minnesota for the year 1861
were $43, 5O7 10; total expenditures $3.50
40 OF; excess OF expenditures over re
ceipts, 1886, e32 81.
GEN. GRANT, though only forty years of
age, has been in seventeen battles, in three
OF which he commanded, and was in the
Mexican war.
A SENTIMENT OF JAMES K. PoLK-The
McMinnville (Tennessee) Peoples Paper
places at the head Of its columns the fol.
lowing motto, which it credits to ex Presi
dent Polk: "No treason of mankind, since
the organization Of society, would be equal
in atrocity to that of him who would lift
his hand to destroy the Union ~
CHICAGO Pork TRADE.-The full returns
Of the seasons packing are not yet in but
VIC have sufficient to show that Chicago this
season has packed more hogs than any
other city in the United States. At pres
ent the indications are that we come I'D
close if not quite to 55QoOO.-Chicago Tri-
bune.
! ENGLAND has built, or is building, iron
vessels of an aggregate burthen Of about
86, 600 tons, while France, when she has
all her iron vessels afeat, will only have
about so, 900 tons. England has now four
ironsides ahoat $4,000 toes against four
French ironsides Of $4,000 tons.
SAKE says that Vermont is famous for
four staples-''men, women, maple sugar
and horses''-and that 1.-THE first are strong
the last are feet, the second and third are
exceedingly sweet, and all are uncolnmonly
hard to beat.
A Minister, appointed chaplain in an
Ohio regiment, lately wrote the following
note to brother preacher "Dear brother
1T you can get comishun as chaplin, it will
pay you $6ty month and Twin beside
The cause O.. krist kneads you in his army
CARL ScHuRz recently resigned the mis-
sion to Spain SALARY $4,000 per annum)t
come home and engage in the war Tor the
Union. The President has nominated him
Cor Brieadier General, Of which post the
pay IS perhaps one third that Of a Minis
ter.
The steamer Minnesota Belle, from Pc
oria to st. Louis, was sunk going round the
bend near Liverpool, Illinois river, about
eight O'Clock on Friday morning. There
were several passengers on board, but they
were all saved. She had very heavy car
50, which is mostly lost.
A correspondent writing from San Jose,
California, says: about six weeks ago VT
had = slight shower that lasted about three
weeks, when it set in to rain and has ken,
it up ever since. A rain guage. carefully
KEEP, and registered by Dr.. Smell Of Sonora.
Tuolumne countv. shows that from the ll,h
Of November, 1861, to the l4.h day of Jan.
uary. 1862, seventy two inches of water
fill At that place.
TIE Richmond papers strongly recon-
mend the destruction Of cotton SO as to take
away the chief motive for the invasiorf of
the South by the federal troops. S., then
the proposition is to save the South from
being sverrun by making it rot worth over
running. But we would suggest to the re.
oess whether If their territory is not IA
ken, it can be worth their keeping.-Hn-
tics. -
ALL tho lake ports are anticipating re-
>ival, Immediately on The opening Of navi-
cation. Large numbers of vessels are fitting
up for service at Toledo, Chicago, &c, and
some Of them will sail in few days. A
few small crafts have already vsntured on.
from Chicago. @s"s>.@ b. s:7 f.
THArcHER, Burt, and Co., of Cleveland.
Ohio. have closed contract with III, Gov.
ernment to rebuild the railroad bridge over
Cumberland river, At Nashville, in SIXTY
days, with : forfeit Of 500 per day for al
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