Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-15
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.

The divers are at work on the wreck OF the
steamship Bohemian ut Portland. They have.
amungoiher things, large KEROSENE submarine lan'
tern, II Yankee invention costing over q thousand
dollars which is similar to that lately used At the
Charlestown Navy Yard, for laying the ways in
deep water for launching one OF tho new iron.
| rlads just finished,
Gen Rosccra2s has issued an order requiring all
persons attending religious conventions, assem-
blies, synodS conferences and other convocations
held in his Department, to take the most stringent
oath of allegiance and any violation Of this order
will subject the assemblage TO dispersion by any
Provost Marshal.
II is understood in well informed circles that
Gen. Shvrmaus expedition WAS not intended Ia
operate against Mobile or Atlanta. MS was SO re-
pcatcdly asserted; but that il was for the express
purpose of cutting off the rebel supplies, and i'm
poverishing the section OF country in which he
operated.
The report in the London Morning Post that
France was renewing negotiations with view 10
q recognition Of the rebels by Great Britain and
France, and in case OF her favor of negotiation,
then for France TO act alone, are pronounced by
the State Department to be entirely Sroundess.
Orinal A. Stoddard first officer of the schooner
MetIs fell overheard and WAS lost ut sea on the
cath of March while the vessel was on her last
trip 10 Humboldt Bay. He was young man of
promise, aged % years. and was the son of Capt.
A. b. Stoddard, who commanded the schooner
The Visalia Delta says: From Owens River,
we learn that there Is large number of people
still coming in. Among them are many families
who settle there for the purpose of making II
| their future home. The mills in that region are
in full blast and many leads are being opened
A thousand rebel soldiers recently elected twelve
rebel members Of Congress The twelve-every
one of them Judas-go TO Richmond with no
other voting constituents than these thousand sol
der voters President Lincoln's "one.tenth p"
plan is far more Democratic than this.
The Santa Cruz Paper Manufacturing Com.
pany are now in receipt Of the necessary ma
chinery for doubling the capacity of their mills.
Their operations confined 10 the manufacture.
ing of straw wrapping Paper, hoping in the fu-
| turc to keep the market fully supplied.
Wellington was bad dancer. On Que occG-
sion he danced with q countess, who could not
| conceal her bushes at his ridiculous pastures.
| On leading her to her seat he remarked, 1.-The
fact is madam, my forte is moi so much dancing
myself US making Others dance"
The following is an advertisement from the
Houston (Texas) Telegraph: 4" A substitute for
| the war, or for the militia can be secured for
$1,000 per month (rebel currency by application,
through the Post Office, to A. G. B. Webberyille,
Texas"
Wherever the Democracy is strongest, there we
find the largest vote recorded against the PROPOSE
ton to allow soldiers to vote. Copperheads have
who are fighting them.
Surveys are now going on for ship canal around
Niagara Falls which is the next great National
work that should be taken hold Of and pushed to
completion The estimated cost of the work is
S26, 900
report circulated in Shasta lately that
new copper district had been discovered near
Ellsworth Mills, the south fork of Clear creek.
A large rush was made to the locality;
mt.
by the name of Parsons whose aggregate height
is 25 feet inches The height of each as follows:
feet l, 7 feet 3, feet and feet :.
1t is stated that Senator Conness is endeavoring
to prevail upon the War Department to erect
suitable Notifications for the protection of the
ports of Santa Cruz and San Diego.
Clarke, the clerk who stole thirty seven thousand
dollars recently from the Denver Mint was arrested
near the Arkansas line on Friday, and most Of the
money recovered.
Twelve thousand men are to be detailed from
the army to reinforce the navy. The men will
be taken proportionately from the several armies.
The Richmond papers state that the Confede-
rates have ordered all Gen. Klpatricks officers
whom they have captured to be placed in irons
A Man in Albany gave $500 piano to the
Sanitary Fair-took one ticket himself in the lot.
lery, and got the piano Lucky dog
They claim to have the Oldest married couple in
the world in New South WaleS The husband
is aged Ill and the wife l07 years.
British soldier was logged in public square at
Toronto, recently, with so much brutality that
physician interposed TO save his life.
Ohio raised within the past year 5000 troops,
which added to the amount heretofore raised,
swells the number to 500,07l
Hangngs in Nebraska arc brisk Four men
stepped from one platform there recently and
not one reached the ground ..r....a'.
Two circular saw-mills have been set up by the
Yankees at vicksburg, which are turning out large
amounts of fine timber.
Robert Bonner of the New York Ledger, gave
his famous mare, Lady Woodruff to the Ne
tropolitan Fair.
No liquor can be vended in the House wing of
the capital at Washington. Speaker Colfax won't
have it, ..r...
The Iowa Senate has passed bill to prohibit
the circulation Of foreign bank notes IN that
State.
The citizens of Dubuque have concluded to
hold q Northern Iowa Sanitary Fair in that city,
The annual expenses of the city of Philadelphia
are now over five and aquarter million of dollars
Washington has suddenly grown up to be city
Of at least loo, 900 people.