Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-01-19


- The ragged, slovenly, differentiation reg.
iments Of the South-wild, bony and hungry,
With matted hair and mrntiicants rags, are said
to have extorted from the rebel Gen. Lee the
Trmark :I"Ihrre is only one attiiude1n which
never should be ashamed Of your seeing nv
men, and that is when they are fightiug''
ErThe Lesvenworth Conservative proftrs
the following cheering prospect 10 the new
State officers Of Kansas -" When the new
State Office arrive at Topeka, they will find
every Office empty and the money drawer
stolen"
- A Washington letter writer depicts
Ecoker as wearing s.his faults upon his sleeve
The world knows them. He is too much of a
talker, drinks too much. and is inclined 10 rash
ness. But be is, in spite OF these drawbacks,
every inch q soldier"
- II is stated, on the authority OF letter
fom Paris, that Messrs. Barring, Of London
have five million dollars on deposit Belonging
10 citizens OF the South. who are either now in
Europe, or on the way thither. ,LE
81 young man, representing himself to be
son OF ex-Gov. Aiken, of 5. O., has been
swindliDg the good people of the Quaker City
out OF sundry sums OF money. The police are
after him.
81 Propositions are before the Legislatures
OF Pennsylvania and New Jersey 70 prohibit
negroes from coming into those States hereafter.
Memorials numerously signed have been pre.
sented in favor of the measure.
~ lady communicates TO the Harrisburg
Union the conclusion, resulting from long in :
yetueation, that diptheria lie mainly caused by
the wasn't of sufficient quantity of common salt
in ordinary diet. .- -.. -
~ Miss Alice Hotchkiss, a young lady of
sixteen years, was drowned recently at New
Haven, CT, by breaking through the ice while
skating.
- The annual tables Of the coal trade show
the operations for 1862 TO have been s,259s72
tons-the anthracite alone represented thirty
millions Of dollars.
~ The Winans Brothers, of Baltimore. have
lost the fat iOh of kpenino
IN repair. A French company has underbid
them.
~ The revenue of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal for the year le62 amounts TO about sixty
thousand dollars, or one third the yield Of the
stream when in its most prosperous condition.
~ The remains of Gen. o. M Mitchell were
brought 10 New York from South Carolina On
Wednesday last, and will be inferred in Green
wood Cemetery.
R-G allsnt little Rhode Island has furnished
1866 men for land and sea service since the
war broke out, and has disbursed S7l0,000 for
bonnties.
SA horse captured from the Rebel Black
Horse Cavalry, and which belonged TO the es-
ta,e Of Gen. kearney, was recently sold In
Newark, n. j., for Sl35.
~ The largest military hospital in the world,
con siniEg 1900 beds, was opened and dedicated
on Saturday at Philadelphia.
~ The cold in the north Of Spain is described
quite unus sual this year. Great quantities of
snow had fallen, and was deep on the ground
IS 1t costs something for the privilege of re-
failing spiritpous liquors in Macon, Ga, the
city councils having fixed the license ~ sIO, ,o0a.
~ Charles Sumner was reelected to the u
:. S'nate hy a vote of 227 out OF 214 votes cast
H In four mon tbs, 81 ,42l,HCO WORTH Of mer-
chanGise was Skipped from 81. LOH.- to Mgln-
phi-, Tenn.
- Why was our common mother like Ger.
tain ucc, ssful modern Institution!
Feraus- she was Adams express com pany.
~ A deed was eYecu cd in Hartford \ few
Gays since, OF which the revenue STAN ~ cost
$50.
e. Capt. simpson, an N-sheYif Of 8f'u0nt
C,uI ~. Va. has been Arrested Iu Wheeling fgr
I oTs' -ttaliUy.