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ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.


port at his own expense.
Prentice thinks jeff Davis's life, if
fully narrated, would ell a large vol
ume, but its end will be told by sim
gle line.
II is said that Rothschilds possesses
million millions of francs, but that,
compared with others, he is poor, at
least, so it pleases the good people of
Paris to state, for they have just heard
that there exists in India a nabob
worth trillion, which, represented in
figures, would be 1000, 000, 900, 900.
Mr. Peabody, the American banker,
passed through Inverness, Scotland, re-
Gently, on his way to his shooting at
GlengarTy.
"Before we can reconstruct (says
the n. Y.PoSt,) we must restore ibor-
ty of speech, freedom Of tho press,
safety to property and to personal
rights in the South" We think so,
replies contemporary, for tho North
as well as the South.
1t is q singular coincidence, that
Napoleon III. has chosen TO confer a
crown upon prince Oft the same house
from which the first Napoleon selected
q princes to be his Empress. Nor is it
merely singular; it marks the fact that
the present Emperor is pursuing, as
far as he can, the policy, and attempt
ing to make real some Of the dreams
Of his uncle.
The London Times, which abused
Louis Napoleon daily for a year, now
turns about and lauds the inscrutable
mind" which "wiolds the colossal pow
or" And all because Austria and
France have sworn friendship with
each other.
Beauregard's aversion to "Greek
Fire" arises chiefly, we suspect, from
the impossibility of determining where
It viii hyht!
President Lincolns letter to Gener.
al Grant shows what a narrow escape
from Washington botching Ulysses
had. 1t also shows that Hallock is
not the original Jacobs.
In some Of our army corps that have
boon long in active service, it is said to
be a custom Of the soldiers to gamble
for drinks by passing the fingers
smartly through the hair Of the head
and then closing them tight and cry
ing, "odd or even ?" Quilp, who has
seen something of soldiers life, assures
us that, though the troops are bad
enough, he has never seen any such
hce-entiousness as that.
The United States brig cambridge,
which was reported to have been foun-
dered at sea, Aug. q, and all on board
but one lost, has arrived safely at
Morris Island.
Garribaldi styles - Abos the
"IIeir of the aspirationsiof Christ and
Of John Brown"
Under the administration of Gene
ri Curtis, eight thousqQd contrabands
Ill IBInna. A llE
The largest bank organized under
tho National Act will be the third Ma
tional Bank Of New York, which will
begin with a capital Of $5,000,000
with the privilege Of increasing to
s50,000,000.
Mr.. Lincoln says, "wherover the
ground was a little damp Uncle Sans
webbed feet have made tracks" The
Chicago Post thinks that, considering
who is at the head of the Navy De-
partment, Mr.. Lincoln's goose smile is
not bad.
The New York World thinks, as tho
republicans insist on taking the name
Of Union, it ought to be clearly under
stood that it is the Union Of Color that
is meant.
Two California editors recently went
out to fight a duel Cause-newspa-
per quarrels; weapons-Navy revol-
t,rs; distance-fifteen PAGES; mod -
advance and fire; result--police cap
tured the whole party. Each gave
$4,000 bail.
Artemus Ward says-'I have al
ready given two cousins TO the war &
1 stand reddy to sacrifss my wife's
brother rathern' not see the rebelyn
krusht. And if wuss Gums to wuss
I'll shed every drop Of blood my able
bodied relashuns has got to prose
koot the war. / think sumbody
oughter be prosekooted, and it might
as well be the war as enybody else"
The English have not got Mana Sa-
HID, after all, it's another man they
have been exulting over.
Tho Confederate debt, says Robert
Taylor, Register of the Treasury at
Richmond, is $40, 100000.
The Pixies Peak miners story Of a
lode Of silver four feet thick is consid-
cred one of the heaviest lodes yet of
fered TO the public.
A beautiful young Polish lady, Miss
Slansinoff, died near Riga recently ia
consequence of a Aogging with the
kout, inflicted 10y the orders of Mour-
ns.;nH LncaIsn shn u-n,.n ,,an,,rn;nc