Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-01-23

= miscellaneous Items.
The steamship Karnak, which was boug ght
for eight hundred dollars, raised and re-
paired for ten thousand, is now worth one
hundred thousand dollars.
A Milwaukee paper ssys that George
Francis Train narrowly escaped lynehing
at Janesville, Wisconsin, a few nights
since.
The proposed final ceremonial at the
Great Exhibition building in London has
been relinquished, in consequence of the
difficulty Of warming the sisles in mid
winter.
The name Of Tom Thumbs pigmy bride
that is to be-is said to be " Bump, and
not Warren. She is native Of Plymouth
count, Massachusetts,.
Anewspaper advertises for compositors
Z" who don't get drunk !" and adds: "The
editor does all the getting drunk necessary
to support the dignity of the establish
ment"
A man in New York went to bed drunk
the other night, rolled out of bed and broke
his neck; his wife found him dead in the
morning. Moral: Shun the flowing bowl
or else take the back side Of the bed.
Rufus Sawyer and his wife, Of Berlin,
Mass, last week celebrated the fftieth
anniversary Of their marriage in the same
house and room where they were welded
in the bright young morning of life.
Good accounts have reached England
from the female emigrants who were sent
out to British Columbia. The Lord Bishop
Of that colony writes that all the women
who have arrived found situations i'm
mediately, and both he and Archdeacon
Wright are clamorous as Oliver Twist for
"mOre." Females are at premium in
that region.
At supper, the other day, in Albany,
there were present one father, three da1ght-
ers, one son, one mother, one brother, three
grand-daughters, three sisters-in-law, one
brother-in-law, three aunts, four cousins,
one wife, one nephew, one grandson, three
nieces, one husband and three sisters. And
yet strange to say, there we're only four
persons present.
A Washington dispatch of Tuesday says:
HSenatOr Sherman stated in the Senate,
to-day, that the CONSUMPTION Act would be
passed on the eve of adjournment"
The American bark Morning Star, Capt.
John Stirling, just arrived at New York
from st. Jsgo de Cuba, reports having
been fred into by the British gunboat PloY-
er on the voyage thither.
The ragged, slovenly, tatterdemhliOn
regiments of the South-Wild, bony and
hungry, with matted hair and mendicanFs
rags, are said to have extorted from the
rebel Gen. Lee the remark: "There is
only one attitude in which never should
be Ashamed Of your seeing my men, and
that is when they are fighting"
Gen. Davis, commanding at Columbus,
the hero of New Madrid and Island No. 10
gunspiking and provision-burning noto-
riety, is to be superseded by Gen. Asboth.
The new commander has already arrived.
A Cairo letter says, one steamer last
week brought to that place from Memphis
five hundred bales Of cotton and left one
thousand on the wharf Over sixteen
hundred bales were shipped from Cairo
last month.
A correspondent of thi Petersburgh Ex-
press tells the following as the latest about
'StonewalP jackson The night after the
battle council Of war was held by Gen.
Lee, to which all Of his Generals Of Divis-
ion were invited. Gen. Jackson slept
throughout the proceeding, and upon being
walked and asked for his opinion, curtly
said: Drive in the river drive EN-
in the river"
Mr.. D. Rogers Of Port Byron, stone
cutter by trade, is about to start for Dub
lin, Ireland, to claim fortune of $500, 900,
to which he has lately fallen heir. The
whole sum is said to be lying in the Bank
of Dublin, in gold Brought to this eoun-
try, the coin will bring q pretty large
premium.
The Tribunes army correspondent Geo.
Wsshburn Smalley, Esq, whose graphic
account of the battle of Antietam was 80
deserTedly praised, was married in Bos-
ton, last week, to Miss Phoebe Garnaut
an adopted daughter of Wendell Phillips,
The proprietors Of the celebrated trot-
ting horse q George NJ. Patchenn and i'Gen.
Butler" have made a match to trot six
races for S30,000-plsy or pay. Butler
will be handled by Dan Mace; Patchen
will be driven by Tsllman, his old trainer
The match viii take place in May or June
next.
1t is stated, on the authority Of letter
from Paris, that Messrs. Baringof London,
have FIVE million Of dollars on deposit be-
longing to citizens Of the South, who are
either now in Europe or on their way
thither. The rich rebels are evidently pre-
pairing to skedsddle before the day of
reckoning comes.