Newbern weekly progress., 1862-12-20

can be obtained, portable mills for
grinding wheat and corn. A large
number of them will be wanted, and
the Commisary of Subsistence will in
vite proposals for models and SAMPLES
Immediately. They must not weigh
over 25 pounds, the grinding surface
of burr stone, grind so pounds in Pne
hour, and made in two pieces, SO al to
be carried by two men.
It has be the habit of the dead let
ter Office to send back only those let-
tiers that contained matters of val4e,
but for the past year the experiment.
has been tried of sending all letteFs,
and the result has been very satisfacp-
ry. Not more than sixteen per cellt.
of the letters have been returned 10
the Department., and the double pcs
tage that is charged has realized 49,
nlns over the expense. I <se'
The human race is divided into two
classes-those who go ahead and do
something, and those who sit still and
inquire, "Why wasn't it done the
other way 2" -
Here is bit of English eccentricity
in sufficiently bad taste, even for john,
Bull. MIR. Queensly, the Cambridge.
saya7at, great admirer Of the GreeA.
poets, has given orders in his will that.
after his death his body shall be das-
sected and his skin be toheaa off and
tanned, in such manner as to convert
it into parchment, on which the
Uiad of Homer shall then be copied.
the singular Ms. to be then deposited
in the British Museum.
Statistics show that the four leading
powers Of the earth-Great Britain.
France, Prussia, and the United States
-expend 81 900, 100000 annually folt
alcohol, tobacco and opium. That is
the direct expense the indirect is
much more. t.
It is proposed in Virginia City, Ne
vada, is shipped Immediately to- the
East, for the benefit of the Sanitary
Fund, the sum Of $4,000, and in the
novel currency of silver bricks. TIE
Territorial Enterprise say = 4
Iver bfisstA, s7ai6PPed M Wtf r. a1pEproprla.S 1E
and will prove the bi ggest
advertisement for Nevada Territory
lat ingenious brains have yet con f
eived. These silver bricks will be
examined and commented on
y many man in New York who
'ould forget in fifteen minutes after
e heard it, the fact that $4,000 in
old coin or Treasury notes had been o
ent from unknown land of Nevada" II
What is there not in California II
discovery follows discovery there. "
he sqvattcrs find gold, the gold hunt :"
IS find silver, the silver miners STUN Ii
le on quicksilver, fruits Of every kind IA
row in profusion, in short, no sooner
anything wanted by the world than
alifornia furnishes it. Now that
orth Carolina has stopped sending
nth her naval stores, California comes ~
the rescue, and tells us that she is al
citing turpentine and rosin for us, ',
I'd will soon be furnishing large sup 81
y. And besides all this, she CUTS in v; Vi
the service a regiment that offers d.
10000 for the privilege of coming
lst to get a shot at the rebels. Is a,
OF she sister worth having? e.
ight Between Rebel nnd R.oy.,I indians. to
On the Odd ult., chiefs and braves of Wich- q;
and Kechie tribes of Indians, to the number
eighty, arrived at Leroy, Indian Territory, W
ask for the protection of the United States st
vernment. They left the rest of their band IN
i'm bering seven hundred in all, on Walnut OF
eek, Kansas eighty miles south of Leroy n'
The Indian tribes bring with them large OF
mber of scalps, and the intelligence Of u
body fight Fort Cobb in the Indian terri TO
ry, on the 2lst CT October. The loyal forces I"
mprised three hundred and w fchitas. one
nd-ed and sixty three Towakonos, one hun
ed and thrty-seyen Kakos, sixty six kech-
few Kaddos, and about thirty Shawnees.
e rebels were led by Col Leper, at the head icl
six hundred of the Tonkawas. Leper is
lite man, and the Confederate agent of the re
Hated tribes. The loyal Indians were en- ST
ely successful having defeated their oppo- ex
Dis and slaughtered large numbers on the al.
Id, among them Col Leper. Getting news q,
1t Cheely Mcintosh was approaching with a LIE
ge force of Texans and Indians, the Wich!-
fed to Kansas. They accomplished the gu
rney of about three hundred miles month col
j day.
they bring with them the papers of the at
I'd Tougkawa chief, all of which were cap bu
ed. These papers cover period of thirty mi
lrS and some of them bear the SipnitsRes of let