, 1863-12-12
Nr1scELLANEots NEWS ITEMS.

The Chinese eat picked cattAfpillers, an(
think they resemble trufHes.
Commodore TatnAll's (rsbeD effects hav,
been con6scated and sold.
About $4,000 East Tennesseans have beer
organized and armed for home defense.
1t is said the old salts will not enter tht
NAVY because the grog rations are stopped.
The receipts Of wheat In Milwaukee fo- Z
week are reported at one million, and twenty
five thousand bushels
Gen. Gilmore has for some time past beer
playing one Of General McClellan's trumps, a
Charleston-spades.
No movement from Vicksburg will be made
very soon. Gen. Logan has taken command
Of tho city, and closed all places Of business.
The Boston draN rioters were acquitted or
the ground that the person who undertook tC
serve the draft notices wss not proved to be ar
officer.
Some people who 20 to church are puzzled
to find the "colect for the day." There is nc
difficulty about It; it begins when the plate
goes round.
The customs In the month Of September
alone, at New York, were over seven millions,
and in the whole country about nine and q
half millions.
Bragg having made some Of Grants Vicks.
burg paroled men fight at Chattanooga, our
government has declared all paroled Union sol.
diers 20,000-exchanged.
The forces Of Guatemala and Nicarauga
have invaded Honduras, and set up Gen. Me-
dino as President. fncendlarism and general
rapine and massacre are taking place.
A school mistress In Santa Cruz, CAL,
whipped a girl pupil. The girls mO;her armed
herself with q carving knife, went to the schooi
house, attacked the teacher and cut her hand
severely.
One hundred and fifty llamas and alpaccas
are to be turned into an enclosure 10 the Bois
de BOulogne, Paris They have been sent as
present from the President Of the Republic
Of Peru.
Secretary Chase has Just received q queer
deposit from the War Department, being g..
100000 Of Confederate money captured on
Red river The great question is, "what will
be do with its"
Gipsies are beginning to emigrate to America.
There are now quite number in the United
States and Canada. Recently band Of these
arrived in San Francisco and encamped on the
outskirts Of the city.
Nassau advices say that ten vessels had ar.
rived there from Southern ports since previous
advices. One Of them got out from Charleston
eleven days after the surrender Of batteries
Gregg and Wagner.
Tho streets Of Cairo, Illinois, . few days
sg', presented an interesting spectacle. They
were being cleaned by squad Of gamblers,
whom the provost marshal had arrested and
set to work as seavengers
Some friends Of Gen. Mcclellan in his old
army undertook recently to got up q testimonial
10 bis favor, and General Meade SUBSIDIZED, but
sue as.A-s...s---.--Ai--------.-
Il was abandoned.
Gen. Lees Official order, announcing the
victory Of Bragg to the Army Of Virginia, says
that the Federal army left lis dead and wound.
ed on tho field, and retreated under cover
Of night pursued BY the rebel cavalry.
The Missouri and Kansas radical Washing
ton delegation have called mass meeting Of
their sort from those States, Iowa, Arkansas,
Illinois, and Of such other States as may choose
to participate, at Hannibal, Mo-, on the 2lst Of
October.
Tue greater part Of failures 10 The examina.
tons for the naval academy at Newport are
made 10 bad spelling. Candidates who pass
iine examination In mathematics, geography,
grammar, and even 10 Latin and Greek, fro
quently are rejected for bad spelling.
Tho latest bon mot Of Unele Abe Is bis re.
fusaI to intOrpOse at the war Office to save the
life Of condemned soldier, saying 70 the lat.
ter's wile-@It Of no use, madam, for me to
60. They do things in their own way over
there, and ] don't amount 10 pig acks In the
War Department"
Sea'bahing costumes In France are reg
ulatcd BY the Government which requisites
everything. A wl.tsr. speaking Of their effect
an the wearcrs. says the men resemble wet
statues not much like Apollo. and the women
look "like Dsgniaed brown rats on their hind
legs"
Gen. SchOaeld, Of Missouri, has proposed to
the War Department to enlist negroes into the
army, and give their masters receipts, and, q
loyal, to pay them out Of the substitute money
thus buying slaves ior soldieTa The same thing
has been done, substantially, BY Mr.. Stanton, in
Maryland.
A witty fellow named Reilly, private soldier,
has been wearing ball and chain at Charleston,
for ridiculing Admiral Dahlgren's slowness, In q
smart parody. Another pOetical parody, ad.
dressed to Washington. has effected his release,
BY order Of Uncle Abe, who couldn't help par.
dOning . joke.
Post Master General Blair recently delivered
in Maryland, speech which has created ex
/ cifed nan,arka In VVash;nosor. ua animal