The Richmond palladium., 1863-10-02
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

900 QUO a year by direct taxation for the sup
port Of the militia.
80. Soldiers' families receive about
$50 600 per week from the n. Y. city
government.
80. The hop crop in Massachusetts, this
year will be only two-thirds Of the average
yield.
-. The amount of postal currency now
in circulation exceeds eighteen million
dollars.
) 80. John TAYLOR. one Of Albauy's most
noted business men, died Sunday evening
week.
49,. The Con federats debt. says the
Register OF the Treasury at Richmond, is
SS40. 100000.
-. Cumberland Gap is once more ours.
This completes the redemption OF East Ten
nessee.
80. The Government has no official in
formation of the occupation OF Matamoras
by the French.
Additional naval force has been
ordered to re enforce the blocksding fleet off
Wilmington. N. G.
-. Several 100 pound Parrot guns have
arrived at Cairo. intended for some Of the
gunboats on the Mississippi.
-. Intelligence from the West states
offirially that mono Of the treasure on the
burned steamer Ruth was stolen.
-. Gen. Gilmore has been appointed
Major General of volunteers, in considera-
tion of his services before Charleston.
-. The German Con gress has a1-
journed. The result of it's deliberations are
said to have been favorable 10 Austria.
...... There aie one hundred and seventy
four divorce cases on the docket Of the
Supreme Court in Suffolk Co, Mass.
-. The Invalid Corps now numbers
nine thousand men. No higher appoint.
ments than Major have yet been made.
-. Cars now run from San Francisco
to within seventeen miles OF San Jose, over
the Western Pacific Railroad.
-. In the city of New York alone there
arc over 90 200 girls who get their living
by the manufacture of hoop skirts.
-. The friends Of Gen Csss will be
pleased to learn that his health is improving.
and that he is now considered out OF danger.
sent fro New York to Gen. Banks Depart
mens. and more will be sent in a few days.
.... A person can live comfortably in
Japan for two cents day. or fourteen cents
a week. A FIRST class house costs thirty
dollars!
80. A ''reconstruction'' of she Canadian
ministry. although the members are hardly
warm in their seats, is already talked of.
-. II was recently stated in Parliament
that l 1877 cases Of infanticide occurred in
England and Wales during the six months
past.
.... Minister Adams writes that he is
still of the opinion that the rebel rams now
building in Liverpool, will not be permitted
to sail.
-. The Chicago Sanitary Commission
has made public appeal for sixty thousand
bushels Of onions for the soldiers at Vicks-
burg.
-. Mrs. President Lincoln is going to
Europe. it is said. with her eldest boy,
Robert. who is to complete his education in
Germany.
-. The season at Saratoga has been
severely nipped by the frost. and is regarded
as ended Total arrivals at hotels, &c,
over $4,000.
80. John Armstrong. of New York,
paid $500 for a plate Of ice cream at fair
in Jersey City for the benefit of sick and
wounded soldiers.
-. A new Monitor, the Tecumseh. was
launched at Jersey City last week. She is
eco feet long. As beam, l2 depth of hold.
and q draft.
-. 1t is estimated that tourists and sum-
mer travellers have left in New Hampshire,
! the present season. upward Of one million
dollars.
-. Seven out OF thirty conscripts drawn
from Bedford. N. H., were milkmen. They
will. Of course, ''hurry up the war with
new vigor.
| 80. Havana advices state that fires, rob-
berries and murders are quite common in
that city. The rebellion in St. Domingo
still continues.
-. Nearly a car load Of JEFF. Davis
private papers. lately captured near jackson.
Miss. passed through vincennes on the
way to Washington.
...... Richmond papers of Sept 8, an
uounce the arrival of Gen. Pemberton a,
Atlantis. Ga., so the report of his death
must have been premature.
80. The women of the North west ar
getting up monster soldiers fair a, Chicago
for the lass week OF October and first week
in November.
The Gloucester Telegraph says tb
fishing interest never stood better than .
the present time. Fish have been plenty
and prices high.
| .... Certain unusual military demoustrs
i tons in ST. Louis last week are said to hav'
been occs.ioned BY the discovery of a Ple
to burn the city.
| 80. Diphtheris is raging fearfully a
S,ratton, W.. Some neighborhoods are s.
| Affected III nj IL ia dificuli to prpcure helm 4.