The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1863-01-23
A letter from an officer on The United

a letter from on officer on the United
Tates steamer Blob, of Charleston, says
Fort Sumter is plated with railroad iron.
MAYOR ODYKE recently voted bill
passed by the Common COunl of New
York to issue S;3,OOO,O00 Of city shinplas-
tcrs but the Council have passed tho
bill over to the Mayors vote.
GEN. GRANTS WiFE,-Tho Jackson
I (Als3.) Appeal states that among the
| prisoners captured by the rebels at Hol-
| ly Springs was the wife of Gen. Grant.
She was released by Gen. Van Dorm.
The new steamship Creole latoly in tho
New Orleans trade, Is offered to the gov
crnment by the present owners as auit-
able vessel to chase privateers. AS she
Is very fact, the proposition may be worthy
ofattention at tho Navy Department.
ONO SEHAToR.-A Columbus letter to
the Cincinnati Gasciie says :"You may
rest assured that no mlk-nnd-water man
or scm-traitor will represent this State
in the U. s. Senate in place of Benja.
min +. Wade"
SHIPMENT OF RAGS TO AMERcA.-A
Liverpool paper OF December 4th, says :.
During the past month 5000 bales of
cotton rags have been brought in this
market and 1900 bales in London for
Shipment to the United Sratcs.
DIPLOMATIC QUARREL.-J. Watson
Webb, our minister Mt Rio, has chal-
lcngcd the English Minister there. Webb
has fought one duel before, and has
limped all his life on account Of il. In
this case the English minister did not ex.
cept, but went on board an English store
ship for safly.-BgGalo Courier
DIR. NoTT.-Tho Rev. DR. Mott, Presi-
dent of Union College, is dangerously
i'll at his residence at Schenectady He
is paralyzcd, and cannot long survive,
tho..e'. h0 SIM retains the strength and
ele9rncss of his great intellect. The ven
cradle Doctor is now in his Goth year.
HoRTIcULTURAL FAsmoYs.-- Cham's
last carcature represents little boy
and little girl in thcssgarden of the Tu-
ilcries, the boy busily engaged piling
earth on his sisters ad,which proceed
ihg draws exclamation from his moth
er, who wears ono of the new-flshioned
bonnots whose ircize is overloaded with
flowers-"GraciouB me what on earth
are you doing there Are you putting
dirt on your sist- RS head" Yes, ma, |
want her to have big bed Of flowers un-
der her bonnet, such as you have got"
OF An old lawyer was giving advice
to his son, who was just entering upon
practice Of his fathers profession: "My
SON" said the counsellor, "if ycu have a
case where the law is clearly on your
side, but justice seems to be against you,
urge upon the jury the vast importance Of
sustaining the law. II, on tho other hand
you are in doubt about the law, hut your
clients case is fouded in Justice, insist on
the necessity OF doing jusicc, though the
heavens fall" "Rut," asked the son,
chow shall manage case where the
law and justice ure dead against mel" "In
that case, my son, talk round il, talk
r.und it,"
SOMETHING NEw.-A plan has Just
been tried on the Northern Railway in
England, for receiving the letteg-bags at
the Intermediate stations without stop
ing the train. BY means of ring the
bag is attached to a post on the line /;
the engine is provided with rod so dis
posed as to catch the ring, and thus car
ry otfthc letters. by asimilar contrivuncs
bags are left by the train when neces-
sary.
END OF THE WoRLD.--Prophccics are
again current respecting the approaching
end OF the world. One reverencd gontle-
man, Of the Millcrite persuasion, predicts
universal dissolution in lSG7-6. Another
seer n@mos the 18th of August, 1868, as
the closing up of creation, adding, that n
worlds convention will assemble ut
Cincinnati, to "settlc up the business of
the past and arrange matters for the fu-
| turc"