, 1863-09-09
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


sy1uz Tatee, formerly Probate Judge Tor
Miami county. Kansas, was hung on the
2Sh ult,, for tue murde- of man near the
city Of fOmaha In June last.
a gentleman riding through sydenham
eaw board with "This Cottage Tor SAIL"
painted Oh it. As he Was always ready for a
pleasant joke, and seeing woman in front
Of the house, he stopped and asked her, very
politely when the cottage Tas going to sail
t. Justas soon. as the man comes who can
raise the wird," was the quiet reply.
"A private in Battery F, 4th Q. s. Artil-
lery, wFites the following epitaph for Floyd:
Floyd has died, and few haYe sobbed,
Hess ase g ;ss AZ ssa dss ST. ssa
The only one he ever paid.
soma doubt that he resigned his breath,
But VOW be has cheated oven death.
II be is bu1ied, oh then, ye dead, beware,
Look to Jour swaddlings, Of your shrouB take
care,
Lest Floyd should to your collins make his way
A1d steal the linen from yonr moulde, .uc clay.
There are eighty-eight banks Ia Rhode
Islapd, with capital Of tHenty.on m.nions,
on specie basis OF tzide over half a million.
The Catholic clorgy In Lithuania htYe
omitted, in many churches, siuce the OUT
break Of the insurrectfon the customary
prayer after the sermon for the welfare Of
Alexander II. and the imperial family. In
Gently issued BY Gen. Mouraviet' strictly
commanding that this prayer shall In future
be put up, and those who refuse obedience to
to the decree are threatened with fine Of 100
silver roubles.
- Reyerdy johnson made an address at
Saratoga on Friday last, at the close Of the
county fair. On the state Of the nation, he
said the Government must be sustained. As
to slavery, 1t was an evil spirit, fruitful Of
national difficulties, and must finally fall in
the contest with free principles. He said Of
the Proclamation that such slaves as it liber-
were not liberated. the people would settle
the matter themselves when they came buck
to the Union. =
The farmers In the Connecticut Valley
are cutting their tubacco. The crop is good
one on al averaee, The best tobacco for
wrappers, north Of Virginia, Is raised in Hart
is probably worth haifa million Of dollars.
Already the farmers are offered 2J cents per
pound for their caops.
- The seYUle Journals etate that during
performance IL. that city, q few days since,
the celebrated B1ondin was nearly losing his
life, and only owed bis escape to his pres
ense of mind. While performing he had on
head dress, to which was attached . piece
OF fireworks in the shape Of wheel. When
that was lighted it assumed rotary motion
SO violent that Biondin WIS unable to resist
E.4G ANfCAEuL4 1AHA 4eE1l1Es LES usAu6EEs I'LL ~
the barrow be had been driving before him,
as wen as his balancing pole, ard endeayored
to undo the etrings which attached the burn
ing head dress to his neck. He dropped from
the rope, keeping himself suspended from 1t
by one leg, while he diyested himself Of the
apparatus, the fireworks still exploding. At
length he succeeded, aud came down in safety
amidst the cheers of the spectators. -.
Tho census Of Ireland for 1861, which haa
nst been published in the form Of q ToluUlip-
ous blue book Of ! ,1oe pages, gives the totl
number Of inhabitants as being 5,7oS, ,967, In
men belonging to the navy, and Z, ,2s3 In con-
number are thus apportloned to the provinces:
Leinster, 1,457,635 Munster, 1878, SIS; u
ster, 1,014,2S6 and Connaught, 913, ,l35.
Out OF these figures, 2, los, ,o5S can read aud
write, l or, 787 read only, and 2,6G7, 900 are
Incapable Of doing either.
"A law was passed OF the Inst session Of
Congress BY which all patents were forfeited
If the final fees were not paid within six
months from the date Of issue. The law ha4
Just taken effect, and under 1t some four
hundred patents which had been granted pre-
vious to March 2, but the fees on which are
unpaid, become void. Among them are some
really valuable onea.
The forthcoming number Of tha dtzantE
.4foath1y will contain an elaborate paper from
the pen Of Charles Sumner, upon our "Do-
mestic Relations" which viii treat Of the
various problems, past, present and future,
which have been and 1ra to be developed by
the rebellion. The political antecedents Of
the author will invest bis Views with more
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