True Democrat., 1863-01-07
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bushel. Home made salt, if dry and which feels spongy when pressed in the hand, will weigh 54 pounds to the bushel. If wet, in damp weather, dripping, it will weigh over this Hence people who sell fifty pounds of salt for a bushel swindle their customers.
 - Mrs. James Gordon Bennett and Mrs. Abe Lincoln are constantly together. Both are dressy, extravagant fond of airs ana display, and are said be the envy of all the female snobs at the North
 - During the recent ' cold snap'' the gov ernment put up ice at Petersburg, Va. If the weather should become vegs cold here ice should be put up for hospital purposes.
 - The Richmond Examiner says there is really no scarcity of breadstut5 in the South, and there is enough flour in Virginia. North Carolina and East Tennessee, to feea the entire Confede- racy. The unequal distribution is the difficulty. There is plenty Of corn in Arkansas, and in somelo caties it is worth only sixty cents, perhaps less, while, in others, it commands two dollars. " th good facilities for transportation, prices would bel capitalized.
 - The fighting in lower Louisiana is of s4 desperate character. An engagement lately oc- cured at Berwick's Bay, Louisiana, between troops stationed there and mixed force of whites and blacks from New Orleans. The black flag was hoisted and no prisoners taken. he enemy were whipped.
 - The federal general Sherman has adopted ingenious mode of gettng cotton in small quan- titles. He proposes that cotton shall be put up in rolls of pound and half pounds and pass for fifty and twenty five cents The idea is to get the coun- try people to bring it in and trade cotton for no tions.
 - Col. Allen, whose splendid regiment was lately in city, was president of the Bastrop Military Institute, in Texas. He is an excellent officer
 The Fort Smith Bulletin pays high and deserved compliment to Gen. Pagan. lie belaved very gallantly at Prairie Grove gentleman who was f: the battle speaks in the highest terms of the bravery of Col. Parsons, of Mo. He was as cool and collected as if watching game of ball, and in the desperate charge n which Gen. Steen was killed, restrained his men until the enemy were within point blank range He then gay e them two volleys and charged them. They had c!anbered a fence in advancing, and when the charge made, before they could get back over the fence, were Dayoneted by scores.
 - Col. Barlow, who burned ,500 bales of cotton belonging to spectators, near Corinth, wes formerly editor of paper at lIartsyille, Tenn.
 - Toblcco sells u Richmond for from 30 to 90 cents.
 - Judge J. T. Deyine of the Confederate District Court, in Texas, ill case before him in which the party, to avoid tie conscypt law, claim cd 10 be lorci 5ner, leciIei the case agai.st hm on three points. The defendant admitted that he had voted at elections. One of the points docidod by the judge was that no man was to be p.csumeI to have viol1teI the laws of the land, a5 the d. .cndant hal voted, itwls to presume ha was cjd- zen. That is tAe do -triue. + ths so-c4..el lvr- eisner5 lave yotcI, that settles tAe question of their citizenship.
 - Gen. Gregg, Of 5. C., wAo VAS killed at Fredericksburg, lieI ganaaty. Before hi~ death he said ,o one of his aids: :. IeH Governor Pick ens, if am U tie this time, ye!l my He checI- fully, fighting for the independence O. south Caro- ina p
 - Ben A. Harrison and Recorder Lucien Adams Of New Orleans, have been tried and seUtencci ta a-.l-, i S ,+l~- -l i24t +4. 4~~:r and featheling an aJolitionists, six months be- fore the fall of that city.
 - Oae-third of the ashes ofgreen hickory and two-thrJs Of salt, will cure meat as well if all three parts of salt are used.
 -Col. Butler, brother of the Beast, has a monopoly of all the gambling saloons and lager beer houses in New Orleans
 - On the 9th, M2j. Gen. Banks arrived at New Orleans. With him was Brig. Gen. A. J. Hamilton and staff These, and other things, set tie the question of Banks destination. They are to aid in capturing Vicksburg, and then Hamilton is to go into Texas. There will De bloody battles fought in Texas and Arkansas, if Vcksburs falls.
 - D. H. Strother, the Porte CrAytor of uLr- per's Magazine is on Banks staff.
 - The Louisville Journal. and other northern papers, say that the small pox is alarmngy preva- lent at Cairo. Fifteen or twenty stolen negroes die every day The country around s deserted
 -Wm. II. Polk, tAe tory, died at Nashville on the 18th alt. Ills death w4a sudden and unex- pccteI.
 --J john II. Morgan has been made maj general of cavalry. Roger Hanson has been made a brisadicr.
 - Prentice, of the Louisville Jourpal says that Lee did not whip Burnsdes Oh, no, but Burnside simply failed in his attack.
 - Married at hTur.reesboro, Tenn, on Sun day, the l4th ult., by Bishop Polk, Gen. John II. Morgan, to Mss Alice, daughter of Hon. Charles Ready.
 Up to the middle of December, 100000 hogs had been killed anl packed 1t Cincnnat
 - It appears that J. We ley Greene, whose crcumstantial lie of being made the bearer of peace propositions from President Davis, was print cd full, in many of the papers, turns out to De 8 Jeremy Didler, bigamist, and confidence man gene rally. He has sloped to Canada, after diddling several editors and Fernando Wood out of round sums of money.
 = The gunboat Cairo, which was blown up by torpedo, in Yazoo river, carried l3 guns.
 - One cotton buye, who followed the aboi- tion army to Holly Sprogs, succeeded in getting o0J bales of cotton, on which he made profit of $200, ,O90.
 - Old Abe's nlessage was telegraphed through to San Francisco in eight hours.
 - The new hotel at St. Louis, the Lindall House, has 5l5 rooms, cost over million of dol lars, and is said to be the largest hotel in tie world. Gen. Price will make it his headquarters