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in gold at Wilmington, and sihty.twu in Ber
nuda.
The receipts Of the Great Fair at Chicago
in behalf Of the Sanitary Commission, are sta
ted at sixty thousand dollars.
A new weekly paper entitled ColOred Citizen
and edited BY cOlored people, has just beef
started in Cincinnati.
There is living skeleton on exhibition in Sar
Francisco. He is 20 years old, feet inche,
in hight and weighs 4s pounds.
French fashionable ladies wear daggerS Ia
their belts. Andalusian Questionable ladies
wear them In their garters
At one Of Saxe's lectures, recently, an indi,
vidual received large reward for bringing the
largest number Of ladies, viz, fOrty.eight
It iS said that the cotton which will be thrown
into the market BY our occupation Of Texas
will amount to two hundred and fifty thousand
bales.
The postal revenue for the past year was
Gil ,l63,7s9 SO, while the expenditures ex-
ceeded that amount BY the sum Of $780,
95 only.
The total number Of saw.mills In the State Of
California is 21s, which turn out per annum
III, 1856 feet Of lumber, and 22,967, 900
shingles.
Gen. Thomas, commanding the Army Of the
Cumberland, has issued an order requiring
newspaper correspondents to sign their full and
proper names.
Gov, buckingham, Of Connecticut, has issued
aproclamatiOn calling upon the people to fur.
nish the 6,439 soldiers required from that
State BY volunteering.
II Is stated that large number Of cargoes
Of bituminous coal have been contracted for in
the British Provinces and England, and will
soon arrive at Boston.
At the Cooper Institute, N. Y, December
18th, there were on exhibition Eve perfectly
white slave children, and an old man with bis
name branded on his forehead.
In the department Of Washington, says q
World, letter three million dollars worth Of
quartermaster and cOmmissary stores have
been lost by US, captured BY guerrillas.
During the recent balloon fight Of Prof
King from Bangor, Me-, he saw . woman drive
her children into the house, crying out There's
one Of JEFF Daviss big bombshells."
Hon. John COnness, Of California, has pre-
sented the President with cane belonging to
the late Mr.. BrOderick. Old Abss reply was
pretty and complimentary to the deceased.
There was considerable stir at Richmond,
and In that vicinity, recently, on account Of the
impreSsmsnt Of porkers for the Confederate
army. The officers feft but one hog to 4 family.
Twenty thousand pounds Is the modest sum
demanded by the London clergyman whose do
mestic peace Lord PalmerstOn has invaded.
The lady Is said TO be young. pretty and charm
Ing.
Mrs. Mary Jackson, aged sixty years, and a
respectable woman, has been convicted In
Richmond Of participatiOnin the bread riot last
April, and sentenced to the penitentiary for
Eve years.
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A"e s.ea'er par. o. tue eampnor wnicn
comes 70 europe ano America u from japan
and Onina' Ngrows aounOanuy' however, 10
Borneo and Sumatra. The celebrated French
cnems'' HasPAi' proposes "sa Pa"aea
Forged paymastsr's checks to tho amount Of
about $4,000 have been detected in WASH
iRg.On from the hand Of son Of one Of the
leading bankers. The money has been SQuan.
dered on gambling, fast horses, &c.
Imam named Horn, having = large and in.
..r.s,;ns S.m,,v nr.csr,lv .lor.A ,,;,h h.oA.
some young lady Of Sonora, Missouri, carrying
OF at the same time some $1,000 belonging to
his employers Both persons had always On.
joyed high standing 10 the community.
Il ID nov s.id that Government viu snsnd
,h. 80. 4. ~.....;,. e.. --.-s ..":srs
n.icD 1nd n !, rsD secure even ,wo hnodrsa
.bousapd voIupt.ers b. ,he l,r., of P.hu.,v /,
will be prepsred for an oveyvbelmino move.
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