, 1863-12-22

all blame in the matter. The responsibility
lies with the Navy Department.
"A letter from John B. Floyd to Gov.
Wise, dated Washington, 25th March, 1857,
has Just come to light. In it is this para
graph: "Mayor, Wood went away dissatis.
ted at tie appointment Of Fowler. He final
II advocated that Of Smell He is oTerplay-
ing LIS game; if be does not change Ills course
/ point or two, he will be stranded. Mark
! what say-he is looking for the nomination
"a young woman recently died at Homo
lnlu under the belief that she was being
.".praycd to death" The Rlva=stan says that
II n IS common thing for native to hire an
other to pray his enemy to death; and so
great ts the power Of Imagination that the
victim, having been made aware OF the oc-
currence, dies.
1t is by no means necessary In Boston to
oc preacher, as the word is usually under
stood, In order to- be permitted to preach.
The pulpit there is an open one, md any one
=, I; Whipple,, Esq, q very accomplished
scholar, critic, aud writer, (now one Of the
editors of the Boston, Tr1ascript,) made his
debut in the pulpit of the t' 23th Congregation
81 Society" and prsaeaed upon Dung Men
in History.
= In Washington the other day, small
boy Was knocked down and run over by Mrs.
wise .tn1uring him.: Mrs. Lincoln took the
lod into her carriage and carried him to l1is
homet where everything in her power Was
done to alleviate his sufferings.
Henry Ward Beecher dcclinesa challenge
Of Dr.. Geo. B. Chcever to discuss the rcla-
uons OF the constitutional to Slavery, but viii
comment on his yiewsif sucha coufse would
Colonel Alexander Cummings. late of
the New York Ford, has gone to Arkansas
to raise colored soldiers. 7It does move"
said the tortured Calico.
Railroad Superintendent Twltchelf, in q
speech at Brook1ine, Mass, lust week, said:
y see before me some twenty men, who,
were there vacancy on any of my gravof
Of death there Is far greater than on the bat
tle-held, while 1t is all gravel and no glory"
1t is said that some Of the vermin in the
camps at the South thrive so wonderfully
and have grown so large that the letters ~,
+; W. arc plainly to be seen on their backs,
like the crcases IN the shell Of an old-fashIon-
for the war;
g. ". Curtis offers reward Of flfty dol
lars for the return Of the manuscript lecture
On "Politlcal lntidclity," which vas stolen
from him at Elmira.
"A respectable woman in Bueno5 Ayres
was recently prost1ated by hopeless insanity,
a!u AZ IAst AppAtGutIy Qlco. Inc body, plac-
ed In thin coffin, was deposited in the open
chapel OF the walled cemetery, and left for
burial the next dry. The next morning the
cofhn was found broken open, and the poor
victim Of premature burial was found deau
In distant part Of the cemetery, clothed 10 |
the thin garments Of the grave, having left |
marks Of her painful progress from her co:Iiu |
to the place where exhausted nature yielded |
to actual death.
- jean Ingelow is not a Scottish Indy. nd !
hos been surmised. Tie Boston publishers.
inqnlring for something about herself, for tue |
qualification Of her many admirers on this |
side of the ocean, have received letter from |
her, In which she is reported to say;
I do not know that there is anything In nv cir
cumstancea hke!y to interest your copntrymen,
q9less thbsy mlsht cs1e to know that am d
Llncolnfnfe family, and that hare seen the win
dow which your townsfotk gave to Eoston church.
- The Boston Transcript says She resides in
London, and Is unmarried.
Professor silliman, of New Haven, was
among the passengers per Canada, which ar-
rived here On Sunday from Halifax. He has
been on u visit to the Nova Scotia gold
mines, md, VIC hear, expressed himself
highly delighted With the operations Of the
New York and Boston companies now en-
yased there, which a1e getting ont constdero-
big gold by the use Of quartz-crushing ma.
chincry.